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IT Security for Businesss Sake

The advent of the world of e-commerce has heightened awareness at large, medium, and small businesses that effective programs must be implemented to secure the ...

By Staff Writer | Updated on March 31, 2003

The advent of the world of e-commerce has heightened awareness at large, medium, and small businesses that effective programs must be implemented to secure the safety and integrity of business information. In todays environment of greatly reduced technology budgets, every effort must be made to ensure that information security technology purchases are responsive to realnot perceivedrisks to our business operations.

There is a propensity to spend a significant amount of money on technology tools that often do not provide a business value return on investment. Therefore, the first task to perform when considering information security technology deployment is a thorough risk analysis to assess the impact an issue or threat in the environment may have on your business operations. Threats may have substantial or no real impact, but a process must be followed to make that determination and then translate the finding into business terms.

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