Developing suitable security policies

Security policies are the basis for implementing security initiatives in an organization. The CISO and the security team offer security leadership by developing security policies that are business-oriented and match the business goals. In addition, the developed security policies should not make the working environment more tedious for employees, as this could then contribute to making them resentful toward these policies and hence reduce the efficiency of the security policies in the long run. As a newly hired CISO executive in the first days of your role, you will need to evaluate the existing security policies to determine their efficiency and areas that may need improvement. After a thorough review, the results may show that the existing system needs a complete overhaul or just an upgrade. A complete overhaul will require drastic changes to the business and working environments. An upgrade will only need additional security initiatives while...