Tag Archives: Information security
Security and Audit – BFFLs? Maybe not, but…
November 21, 2008 – 6:00 am
–
…we may have lots of reasons to work together more closely. Maybe it is just the luck of the draw that at almost every employer for the last 15 years, I have been the one to manage our audit relationships, but I am certainly suspicious my good fortune is other than divinely inspired. …
Fitting the CIA Triad in a Business Context: The Concept of Agile Security
May 20, 2008 – 6:00 am
–
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
–
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, the…
Information Security: Orphan of the Org Chart?
March 14, 2008 – 6:00 am
–
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…
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish