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Marc Varner, corporate vice president and global chief information security officer at Lowe’s Companies Inc., gives his keynote address at the university’s fourth annual Cyber Summit, held Feb. 21 in the Grandview Ballroom of Kidd Brewer Stadium’s north end zone facility on App State’s Boone campus. Photo by Chase Reynolds

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