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Looking for Information Security Control in a Global Business Climate

Mike Jerbic details efforts by The Open Group Security Forum to help further develop secure information architecture standards

By Mike Jerbic, The Open Group Security Forum

The modern information security governance team must consider economic, policy and technical factors impacting their organization's security architecture. The team must also represent all the different views needed to sustain the various stakeholders involved. Security as a combination of "people, processes and technology" is nowhere more evident than in the control of information across enterprise perimeters. Corporate legal, corporate policy and internal audit are now among the key stakeholders in a corporation's security architecture. Previously, the needs of these stakeholders have not been well articulated within the architecture community, but they need to be. C-level security practitioners must lead the way. ##

Mike Jerbic chairs The Open Group Security Forum and is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and many other technical professional associations. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on controls and systems, from the University of California at Berkeley. With over 20 years' experience in hardware and software product development, engineering management, and IT project management, Mike's interest area is in solving complex, multi-faceted problems that require a varied background and experience to solve, such as the control of electronic chattel paper.

For further information, please find the full Open Group "Information Security Strategy, 1.0 - A Framework for Information-Centric Security Governance" white paper at http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/w075.htm.

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