Six Sigma’s data-driven, acronym-laden focus on quality improvement might seem like a mismatch if the rest of your company isn’t on the program. But if you listen to a few well-respected security veterans of Six Sigma talk about its benefits, you might be ready to give some Six Sigma ideas a try. “Six Sigma is all about measuring process improvement, about taking defects out of a process,” explains Frank Taylor, CSO of General Electric. As fiscal pressures and consequences of security grow, business leaders are going to demand that we have a way to indicate how effective our programs have been,” Taylor points out. Once you’ve got that in place, here are a few Six Sigma tenets that stand to deliver the biggest bang for the buck in terms of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of both physical and information security.