Achieving and Sustaining Secured Business Operations

Proactively plan and manage business innovation along with business security. Your organization can achieve and sustain secured business operations, and equip all people responsible or involved in business and IT strategic and architecture planning and oversight with the tools to do so. Securing company operations is a board-level discussion. Across all industries, companies are pouring millions of dollars into taming cybercrime and other related security crime. This situation needs to be changed. Investing by fear generally does not drive smart decisions or long-term value. The fear needs to be converted into assurance with proper plans and a holistic approach looking top down, bottom up, and sideways. Every business wants to protect customer information, prevent unauthorized access, and protect the brand and assets. They also want to continue to provide innovative and differentiating capabilities. The industry has looked at these two objectives independently, resulting in reactive and incomplete responses to security threats. The end goal is to achieve and sustain safe environment to conduct secured business operations while continuously innovating for competitive advantage. Achieving and Sustaining Secure Business Operations shares methods and tools to help business and IT leaders close the gap and break the barrier to achieving and sustaining a secure business environment while introducing new business capabilities. The book: Emphasizes security as an integral part of the business planning strategy rather than an afterthought Discusses current practices, focusing on a set of stakeholders/roles or processes in the overall value equation (e.g., business management, IT management, business functions, solution delivery/support, and external service/technology providers) Introduces the framework and practices that can break the code for achieving a combined goal of driving innovation in business while keeping operations safe and secure What You'll Learn Discover why security, specifically secured business operations, needs to be part of business planning and oversight by design and not left to technologists to make the business case Determine what you can do in your role and in your organization to drive and implement integration and improvements in planning and managing secured business operations in conjunction with other business planning and management activities Choose ways in which progress toward achieving and sustaining secured business operations can be measured Understand best practices for organizing, planning, architecting, governing, monitoring and managing secured business operations Create a framework, including methods and tools for operationalizing assessment, planning, and ongoing management of secured business operations Use cases and potential case studies for various industries and business models Who This Book Is For Chief executive officers and their leadership team; chief operations officers; chief information officers and their leadership team; chief information security officers; business functional middle managers; and enterprise, solution, and information technology architects