Risk Management
Issues and Dilemmas in Information Security Practices
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Editor’s note: In A Circular Problem in Current Information Security Principles, we highlighted one of the challenges in our knowledge domain that contributes to the ineffectiveness of today’s information security practices. In this third installment, we review the issues and dilemmas that are common in our practice environment. One of the challenges information security management teams […]
A Circular Problem in Current Information Security Principles
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Editor’s Note: In this second installment of the blog series on more responsive security, we take a closer look at the circular problems associated with four common security principles in managing “weak link” risks in Information Technology organizations. Before discussing what constitutes this responsive approach to security, let us first look at a few of […]
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Neohapsis
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Today, businesses are looking at security in a strategic, comprehensive way to protect mission critical processes and assets. There has never been a greater need to understand the impact that...
Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report: Security Services and Risk Management
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More organizations are starting to view cybersecurity as a strategic risk. They have to—it’s becoming unavoidable. Technology and the business are so intertwined. Regulators are issuing more compliance measures that include information security directives. And all the while, adversaries are relentless in their campaigns to compromise defenses to steal information, money, or otherwise create disruption.
Business Agility in the Evolving Workforce
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Eighty-Five percent of companies with global supply chains experienced at least one supply chain disruption in the previous 12 months.1 Risk is inherently unpredictable. Fortunately, the current workforce is undergoing its own transformation to be able to identify and manage risk on a global basis. For more than 35 years I have worked with companies […]
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