Information Security Management

Information Security Management

Introduction

Information technology is the major factor that drives the economy. Information technology provides the organizations with competitive advantage in worldwide market. Moreover, information technology enables the federal government to offer improved services to the citizens of the country and facilitates with better productivity as a nation in order to successfully achieve their business functions and missions (Patil, 2008). Information systems within the organization include many different entities such as workstations, high-end supercomputers, personal computers, personal digital assistants and cellular telephones. In the contemporary world, information systems are experiencing serious risks that produce adverse and unfavorable effects on the organizational assets, organizational operations, other organizations, the Nation and individuals by exploiting both unknown and known vulnerabilities in order to compromise the integrity, availability or confidentiality of the information that is being stored, transmitted or processed by those systems (Patil, 2008).

Risks and dangers to information systems and information include environmental disruptions, purposeful attacks and machine/human errors which result in great danger to the national security interests and economic security interests of any developed country. Thus, it is necessary that managers and leaders at all levels figure out their accountabilities and are held responsible for the management of information security threat. The information security risk is usually associated with the use and operation of the information systems that help in supporting the business functions and missions of their organizations (Patil, 2008).

Information is a very vital asset like other assets of the business organization and therefore information is required to be protected from any risk. This protection becomes essential in interconnected environment of the organization. Due to the increasing interconnectivity, information is depicted to a wider variety and growing number of vulnerabilities and threats (Patil, 2008). Thus, several organizations today implement many security policies so as to protect their organization from any sort of risk. Moreover, in order to have a protected and maintained flow of information, firms apply information security framework. These security frameworks help the organization to recognize the dangers that are associated with the information of organization and ways to alleviate those threats (Patil, 2008).

Discussion

Benefits of Information Security Management Framework

Framework for the management of information security help in preventing crises and for that many techniques and methods have been described. There are many basic tools of information security management system. These tools include management review, preventive actions, corrective actions, incident management, compliance metrics, risk treatment plans, risk assessment and internal audit (Johnson, 2007).

Frameworks of information security are very essential in the establishment of business. The organization's information will be vulnerable to risks if organization lacks framework for information security on different parts of the system. Information security frameworks secure the system's network resources and all other components of the information systems. Information security framework ensures that all of the information in the organization is not disclosed to any third party (Johnson, 2007). Information security framework ensures that information standards of the organization agree with the suitable international standards. Information security framework help in featuring high-quality ...