Information Systems

The modern enterprise is dependent upon the quality and integrity of its information. Systems designed for this purpose face a dizzying array of threats such as natural disasters, regulatory violations, malicious insiders, and targeted attacks by criminal gangs.

How does an enterprise know it has managed its risks? What is the correct balance between security and efficiency?

 

Change

Every enterprise system, product, person, and process changes over time. Exogenous and endogenous risks change as the landscape evolves. It Is not sufficient to build security around fixed processes. Security must be flexible and respond to both technology changes and system changes. Information security must include responses for risks whose variance is not known but arrival is assured.

What changes are being ignored? What is the risk?

 

Innovation

An Innovation may or may not have been profitable for it's inventor, but it delivers a powerful jump from what existed to a more ideal state, Sometimes an enterprise receives the benefit of the jump and sometimes it disappears. Understanding the risks delivered by innovations upon the enterprise is critical to survival. It's hard to generate value when you are being put out of business.

Which innovations are business models threats? Which innovations are complementary?

 

 

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