Taming the cyber frontier
Gregory Nowak · Computer Fraud & Security · 2011
In the words of President Barack Obama, in his introduction to the cyber-security strategy document published recently by the White House: “The digital world is no longer a lawless frontier, nor the province of a small elite. It is a place where the norms of responsible, just and peaceful conduct among states and peoples have begun to take hold.”1 In our increasingly connected society, organisations need to ensure that their information security function is doing all it can to protect corporate reputation. There is considerable risk to an organisation if it is perceived to be a poor cyber-citizen. It is vital that everyone in the organisation understands that he or she has the responsibility to behave in accordance with acceptable and expected behaviours in their online activity. And organisations need to do the same with their policies and actions. The risk of successful hacktivist attacks is greatly mitigated by well-implemented, regular information security measures. Greg Nowak, Principal Research Analyst at the Information Security Forum (ISF), explains how organisations can formulate effective policies.