Laws & Regulations: This post is for organizations that could use help raising the level of management awareness and support for information security policies. From the get-go, let’s be clear that this post is not for established organizations that are already far along when it comes to their information security efforts. They will have long [...]
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Divergent Directions: Looking back over the last 30+ years of my work in information security, I see two diverging trends when it comes to defining the information security-related standard of due care. By the “standard of due care,” in this column I mean the actions that management needs to take (for instance the controls that [...]
The events of 2007 and 2008 have led to an increased focus on governance, security and privacy within the financial services market. One increasingly common scenario is when a third-party service provider must have their security program validated by the financial institution that it serves. Historically, these audits were based on the BITS framework and [...]