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Deborah Koff Ross: How can you quantify the expense associated with mitigating a threat you can't even quantify?

On the recordApril 15, 2013
How can you quantify the expense associated with mitigating a threat you can't even quantify?
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Ross questions the ability to measure threats without standards.

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