Objectives Alignment: Reworking IS Security for eBusiness Enterprises
Brian O. Cusack · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2004
The rise in the use of the Internet and networks for doing online business has altered the ways IS security is approached and the adoption of enterprise security models.The challenge is being met by the reworking of traditional network security approaches, and the development of new hybrid models.Much of the new development work is conceptual, definitional, and transformational.In this paper the IS problem of aligning Information Technology objectives and Business objectives is debated to highlight the differences in Computer Science expectations for security, Business expectations for security, and eBusiness customer expectations for security.The implications of the debate are then teased out by looking more closely at integrative approaches to securing eBusiness networks, and the potential gains for risk management.