| Authors: Baskerville,
R Date: 1993 Title: “Information Systems Security: Adapting To Survive” Journal: Information Systems Security, 2 (1) Pages: 40 - 47 |
| information systems security, information security managers, organizational strategies, security controls |
| Many organizations are finding that their "world" is changing. In response, some large organizations are attempting to achieve new organizational forms that foster rapid adaptation to change. As manager exchange views, even not-for-profit and government organizations are beginning to realize benefits from being competitive, and are adopting a more flexible organizational stance. Far from being on the periphery of these developments, information security managers hold a crucial key that will advance or defeat these vital organizational strategies. These competitive trends are forcing organizations to develop new forms of information systems. These new systems present today's security managers with problems that are so unfamiliar and of such a different nature, that these may have escaped our notice altogether. These new security problems defy the use of old design approaches or traditional frameworks for security controls. Risk analysis, for example, ceases to be relevant to many of the essential questions of information security in new forms of systems. As security managers, we must re-think our basic assumptions about organizations, information systems, and security. |