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Cyber warranties: market fix or marketing trick?

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Risk transfer options offer hope, but little more.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 4
April 2020
115 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3389339
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Published: 20 March 2020
Published in CACM Volume 63, Issue 4

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