Defining success in the digital age
What does success look like in the digital age? Success translates to a fresh set of requirements for modern data-centric organizations and the information systems and security of their digital assets. These requirements include meeting the following criteria:
- Agile and responsive: It take forever to modify systems or stand up new ones. They can change quickly and easily to meet market demands (of both existing markets and expanding into new markets).
- Resilient: The business must operate wherever customers and citizens demand, even if that is a public or an open network. The business must assume the failure of controls and build in fail-safe mechanisms to provide a defense-in-depth (DoD) approach.
- Data-driven: Quantifiable data is sought out and used for technology and security decisions rather than relying on pure qualitative data and how things have always been done.
- Empowering: Technology and information security are focused...