Business-IT-InfoSec Alignment - An Unusual Approach

InfoSekure's professionals understand that compliance and Information Security are but means to an end. What is moot is the organization's business objectives. As somebody remarked: It is possible to achieve 100% Security - all you have to do is lock down the entire organization.

InfoSekure's professionals understand that risk is inherent to business. So every time InfoSekure's professionals do anything for your organization - be it a simple Penetration Test or a complex compliance project, they strive to understand your business model and the competitive environment your organization is operating in. Many of InfoSekure's professionals have business degrees and a very firm appreciation of different industries and sizes of companies.

Even before InfoSekure's professionals begin their engagement with your organizations, they would be familiar with your organization's value chain.

A firm understanding of your company environment is backed up with IT skills and each InfoSekure professional understands the role of IT in each component of the Value Chain as also some of the best practices that organizations across the world have successfully implemented. This background knowledge provides InfoSekure's professionals a perspective of the impact of their recommendations on organizations.

Many organizations err in aligning their IT functions with their business and most fail to align their Information Security (InfoSec) operations with their business. InfoSekure's professionals excel in helping organizations align their InfoSec operations to their value chain, thereby ensuring that the Information Security and Technology Risk Management functions are able to contribute to the organizations successes. Aligning InfoSec and the business also ensures that business people are involved in InfoSec decisions.

The combination of Business, Information Technology and Information Security skills enables InfoSekure's professionals to recognize Business/IT or InfoSec controls that do not conform to the strategic alignment model. Also because of Business Process Reengineering/Management skills, InfoSekure's professionals are able to re-jig controls and processes to ensure predictable outcomes of controls and efficiencies. This holistic knowledge about organizations and approach to InfoSec helps InfoSekure professionals ensure that the organizational objectives are achieved in a risk framework that is acceptable to it's stakeholders.

Some ground level services that InfoSekure offers to help organizations align their Business - IT & InfoSec functions are:

Designing & Implementing Policies & Procedures: Whether it is business controls, IT Controls or Information Security controls, InfoSekure's professionals have the entire spectrum of knowledge and skills to align these activities to the Strategic Alignment Model.

Information Security Awareness Training: InfoSekure's professionals do not indulge tech-speak unless they are of course speaking to a Tech. An ability to articulate complex concepts in simple English (or the local language and InfoSekure speaks many languages) and an appreciation of business concepts make InfoSekure professionals ideally suited for training your people on your policies and procedures. InfoSekure's professionals ability to engage business people in Risk Management and Information Security concepts enables InfoSekure's professionals to train business, IT or InfoSec professionals and could involve any activity (Business, IT or InfoSec) related to the organization.

Designing Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plans: They say "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". While InfoSekure's professionals endeavor to work with you to help you prevent disruptions to your organization, disasters do happen. When they do, organizations that have planned for the eventuality survive. Others perish. InfoSekure's professionals can help you formulate a plan for any kind of circumstance - from the Avian flu to an earthquake.

 


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