Security will be key to survival

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: today’s economic environment, terms such as data loss prevention have become increasingly important to ensure business continuity. Intellectual property (or information) in simple words needs to be protected at all costs. It is the key to business survival. Today, most organisations are addressing security and risk in silos, with groups implementing distinct and often disconnected processes and technologies to mitigate the risks. These risks are often interconnected, but unfortunately the processes and technologies are not.

In order to lower operational costs and make security more effective, proactive and measurable, enterprises will have to ensure that security is embedded throughout business processes from the very start. Policies have to be consistently defined and socialised before controls can be put in place. The most successful companies look at policy first, and then implement the technology to automate it. Not the other way around.

By operationalising security—standardising, automating and driving down the cost of day-to-day security activities—companies and IT can be much more proactive when it comes to protection.

Protection of your information is the key to survival. 2009 will be a year that is careful with its investments—there is too much at stake. No one is willing to take the risk anymore. Responsible organisations and managers do not want to be ‘penny wise and pound foolish’