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Information Security Management System
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Information is an important value to companies and government agencies, and must therefore be
protected appropriately. Most information today is created, stored, transported, or processed at least in
part using information technology (IT). In the industry and administrations, no one denies the
necessity to adequately protect its IT landscape. In addition, though, information from all other phases
of business processes must be adequately protected. IT security incidents such as the disclosure or
manipulation of information can have wide-ranging, adverse affects to a business or can prevent the
organisation from performing its tasks, resulting in high costs.
No one in industry, commerce and administration would any longer dispute the need for adequate
protection of their IT environment. IT security incidents can have far-reaching repercussions that
harm business or interfere with the performance of tasks and thus result in high costs being incurred.
Practical experience has shown that optimising information security management frequently improves
information security more effectively and lastingly than investing in security technology. However,
measures originally implemented to improve information security can also have a positive effect
outside a security context and can turn out to be profitable. Investments in information security can in
many cases even contribute to cost savings in the medium term. Positive side-effects that can be
expected from this are higher quality of work, increased customer confidence, optimisation of the IT
landscape and organisational processes as well as the utilisation of synergy effects through better
integration of information security management in existing structures.
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Information Security Management System
Information Technology
English
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
2008
1-38
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