Designing a Framework for Convergent Information Security Management among Federated Organizations

According to the developments in the businesses, organizations are dependent to information technology more than ever. Such dependency is followed by its own information security risk. On the other hand, the dependency of such organizations with information is also followed with the increase in information exchanges and electronic interactions. Specialists in information security governance have provided many suggestions regarding to the benefits of wide advantages of cooperation and participation among federated organizations in the field of information technology. In the other word, nowadays, according to the attention to the increasing information and knowledge exchange between organizations and inter connection of information systems, the single traditional approach regarding to the information security is not efficient. Because of the sensitivity of information security, collaboration among organizations needs a sustainable trust and mutual cooperation. This collaboration requires a change and fitness of many organizational dimensions such as culture and policy. This article tries to provide a conceptual framework for information security management in such convergent environment among federated and related organizations.