White Papers for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

Information Security: Meeting Today’s Challenges

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A 2007 survey found that the vast majority of organizations felt no better prepared to tackle information security than they did a year earlier.1 this, following a year when organizations spent millions of dollars on improving security; new laws and regulations were created; and information security took center stage on an unprecedented level. unsurprisingly, given the growing complexity of the legal and regulatory landscape for information security, the same survey found that companies listed “the complexity of security” as their number one challenge.
Information security today is indeed a complex challenge. Organizations must balance the cost of protecting information against the value of the information, while complying with hundreds (if not thousands) of laws, regulations, standards, and best practices that dictate information management techniques and technologies.

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