Chapter 3

Goals of Security

Goals of Security—SMART/OKR

When does the first step—taking care of security in information technology or in a project—start, and when does it actually end? The short answers to these questions are from the day the project is initiated and never, respectively. However, those answers need further explanation.

Vulnerabilities in IT security can start from the very beginning, and ignoring them can cause them to escalate and become huge problems to fix later. This is the reason security for the project—whether an IT project or otherwise—needs to be considered from the beginning. As the project progresses, vulnerabilities are tested for at regular intervals during the development, testing, and deployment phases. Even ...

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