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Tag Archives: Information security
Fitting the CIA Triad in a Business Context: The Concept of Agile Security
May 20, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Last year, Harvard Business School Press published a very interesting book entitled IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage by George Westerman and Richard Hunter. Westerman is a Research Scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of…
Our Polymorphic Fluid Field of Information Security
March 27, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Several years ago, I witnessed the first meeting of a newly-minted Director of Information Security with his supervisor, the CIO of a major insurance firm. The CIO carefully drew a large circle on a whiteboard and proceeded to inscribe the word “SECURITY” in the center of the circle. Then,…
Information Security: Orphan of the Org Chart?
March 14, 2008 – 6:00 am
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In the 1990s, many Infosec professionals frequently played a game called “Where Do We Belong?” The game consisted of guessing where, on a corporate organization chart, the Information Security (or “Data Security,” as it was often called then) function ideally belonged. Some claimed that…
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