Featured download: IT Security in an Economic Downturn
The world has changed significantly over the last two years and now at the forefront of most peoples’ minds is the so-called ‘credit-crunch’. The changes over the last two years have implications for IT security. These Guidelines seek to place IT security against a backdrop of the four key changes in the global economy, these being: a reduction in liquidity; a contracting of the major economies; increased government intervention, particularly in the larger economies; a shift in the balance of global economic power away from the traditional large economies. A number of different IT related risk areas are looked at: the nature of risk itself; reputational risk; financial risk; organisational risk; infrastructure risk and personal risk. Both the changes and the risks are placed in a matrix including Donald Rumsfeld’s famous known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns to produce a picture of the type of IT risks faced in this new environment.
