Chapter 5

Security Organization Management

This chapter covers the concept of executive sponsorship, or ownership of security from a C-Level executive. The chapter argues that you need someone who can make budgetary and staffing decisions to support the policies that you’ve implemented.

Keywords

Executive sponsorship; C-Level; nondisclosure agreement; NDA

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With these policies in place, the next question you’re going to ask is:

Who is going to do all this anyway?

I’ve heard the term unfunded mandate more than once, and I’ve been on the receiving end of that term where there was a new direction, a new rule that we’re expected to comply with, regardless ...

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