Corporate Governance: Information security the weakest link?

Critical Success Factors in implementing information security governance (Case study: Iranian Central Oil Fields Company)

The oil industry, as one of the main industries of the country, has always faced cyber attacks and security threats. Therefore, the integration of information security in corporate governance is essential and a governance challenge. The integration of information security and corporate governance is called information security governance. In this research, we identified "critical success factor...

Identifying the Weakest Link in Data Security Defence - Blogs - Pixalert International Blog

In helping to improve the efficient use of data while also enhancing data protection and compliance standards, one information security expert claims that organisations need to take heed from the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD). According to Andrew Serwin, CEO of The Lares Institute , a think tank focused on technology, privacy and information governance, ‘the cyber risk is an asymmetric threa...

Proceedings of The 6 th Australian Information Security Management Conference

This paper presents a critique of emergent views on the roles of the boards of directors in relation to information security. The analysis highlights several concerns about the separation and validation of proper theory and business assertions of information security at board level. New requirements articulated by industry bodies – represented by a selected group of experts and evident in liter...

Corporate Governance and Information Security

From information security to ... business security?

This short opinion paper argues that information security, the discipline responsible for protecting a company's information assets against business risks, has now become such a crucial component of good Corporate Governance, that it should rather be called Business Security instead of Information Security. During the last year or two, driven by developments in the field of Corporate Governance...