Benefits of security architecture in business

Enterprise Security Architecture addresses a wide-range of issues in addition to the benefits provided by a general IT Architecture, including:

Risk-Based Cost/Benefit Effectiveness

The reduction of risk (the benefit) should be appropriate to the costs of acquisition, development, installation, administration and operation.

Enabling Business

Information security is the enabling technology of digital business.  The most valuable assets of any business are its reputation and customer confidence, assets that cannot be protected in the digital world without effective security.  Security must enable and support the fundamental business need to migrate the point of sale and the point of service into the customer premises or into their personal electronic devices.

Adding Value to Core Business

Rapid advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are impacting business in very different ways, all of which require security to take a forward-thinking strategic approach:

• Products are incorporating more and more embedded ICT systems;
• The support of these products is very information intensive, and the supply of this support information is becoming more and more automated;
• In many cases the exchange of information between business and customer or partner has in itself become the product.

Empowering Customers

Customer empowerment means giving the customer choices.  Understanding the concept of ‘customer service’ is critical to business success in the new economy and service quality and information security are closely linked.  Information security practices can deeply affect perceptions of customer service

Protecting Relationship & Leveraging Trust

Business relationships are based upon trust.  Trust is a business relationship attribute, not a technical attribute but sound technical security systems are needed to protect the trust that exists in a relationship.

A Sound Management and Assurance Framework

The new generation of Information Systems has enormous complexity and power but with that comes a new generation of business risk.  Management of that new environment requires a sound framework of assurance throughout the lifecycle of the business system.

Governance

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in Governance requirements for all organisations and the burden of personal liability for failure is now placed upon executives who must be able to demonstrate to legislators, regulators, and auditors that they are performing due-diligence and doing the right thing.

Compliance

A framework is required to demonstrate compliance with technical standards, government directives, and legislation.

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