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By SecureWorld News Team
Fri | Oct 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM PDT

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates explains how the money he's spent on IT has been a waste.

ZD Net Explains:

Robert Gates repeatedly drew waves of applause and laughs from the early morning crowd of CIOs and tech leaders at the Gartner Symposium on Wednesday. In a wide-ranging keynote interview, the former chief of the CIA and the Department of Defense talked about everything from the IT project that wasted the most taxpayer money to how the US could solve its cybersecurity problems but probably won't because of political in-fighting.

Gates particularly skewered the US Congress and Edward Snowden.

But, Gates also spoke frankly and poignantly about leadership, offering the audience of IT chiefs a few tips for how to do it right by using transparency and including the people who work for them in the process.

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