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Security concerns are at the heart of pretty much every aspect of networked IT services today, but are the real security questions being addressed? Do CIOs and CEOs suffer from a translation problem when assessing and developing solutions for the potential threat? And has the incentive during the recession been to sweep the big issues under the carpet?
In 2010, we can confidently say that three things will happen. Firstly, information security will continue to improve, because the technologies to counter threats are evolving every day. Secondly, however, the security of information – corporate, commercial and personal – will come under more threat than ever before. The ‘arms race’ between hackers and IT security professionals is becoming more fraught and the stakes are getting higher. Thirdly, the issue of information security will become more and more of a mainstream topic, discussed in mainstream newspapers and on mainstream television channels. Already, Google’s decision to cease its censorship in China due to suspicious attacks on data held on its servers has been one of the biggest news stories of the year.
Against this backdrop of increasing complexity and a rising public profile, CIOs, CSOs and CEOs will meet around the board table to discuss the security issues facing their organisation: issues that have never been more important, or more challenging to understand, let alone address. Yet they will meet around that table hampered by a simple yet very real barrier: language and awareness, or lack of it.
For all that information security is one of the most critical issues facing any organisation today, be they a financial institution holding customers’ banking details or a government body holding electoral, health, criminal, employment or immigration data, too often an inability to translate the issue from a technical to a business one gets in the way. Vital facts are lost, as it were, in translation.
This paper presents six of the biggest security topics that CIOs, CSOs and CEOs should be discussing – urgently – in 2010. And it does so in an attempt to break down this barrier, acting as a straightforward guide to the problem, the situation as it stands and the solutions available. BT Global Services has decades of experience helping major international organisations protect themselves and their customers from the ever-present threat of information loss or attack. This paper is aimed at spreading just some of that experience around.
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