{"id":2005,"date":"2003-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/03\/process-not-technology-tightens-security\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:27","slug":"process-not-technology-tightens-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/03\/process-not-technology-tightens-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Process, not technology, tightens security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate security is more of a strategic issue than a technological battle, and chief security officers should be treated as trusted experts by boards, delegates at the Compsec 2003 were told last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate security is more of a strategic issue than a technological battle, and chief security officers should be treated as trusted experts by boards, delegates at the Compsec 2003 were told last week.<\/p>\n<p>Outsourcing, email management and financial or regulatory pressures such as Basel II in Europe and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US have driven this approach, the security conference heard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chief security officer should now be positioned as a trusted advisor to the business, moving away from operational delivery towards understanding and managing risk,&#8221; said Phillip Gregory, head of UK security at financal services firm Norwich Union.<\/p>\n<p>Security is less about technology and more about establishing consistency in the processes and procedures that the technology supports, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Identify issues early, raise awareness of your requirement and become part of the process,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Angell, information systems professor at the London School of Economics, repeated warnings to spend more time on due process and less on technology as a panacea.<\/p>\n<p>However, success and failure will be determined by unique social, political, organisational, and particularly personal factors, not just the functional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/News\/1147007]http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/News\/1147007[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}