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Chapter 4: The Translation Gap

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James had prepared for three days for this strategy meeting.

The quarterly board presentation was his chance to make security visible. He'd built a comprehensive deck: vulnerability statistics, threat landscape analysis, patch compliance metrics, penetration testing results. Every slide was accurate. Every data point was verified. He'd rehearsed the presentation twice in front of his bathroom mirror.

Now, standing in the boardroom on the fourteenth floor, watching the faces of the people who controlled the bank's future, James could feel the energy draining from the room.

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