People—Administration

Everyone in the company needs to play a role for the information security program to be successful. The CEO needs to set the overall tone for the company, and each employee needs to have a basic understanding of security and must raise potential issues to management. If everyone in the company relies entirely upon the information security staff, the program will fail.

Executives need to understand the overall priorities of the program and ensure that it is meeting its objectives within their organizations. They should hold their staff accountable for meeting these objectives and evaluate the security program against other priorities for their organization when making critical resource decisions.

Security policies will impose ...

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