Executive Guide to Information Security, The: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions

Six Significant Information Security Challenges

Executives need to understand and address six significant challenges, which are listed here and reviewed in detail in the following sections:

• E-commerce requirements

• Information security attacks

• Immature information security market

• Information security staff shortage

• Government legislation and industry regulations

• Mobile workforce and wireless computing

Electronic Commerce

The Internet has created an important channel for conducting business called electronic commerce (e-commerce). This channel provides many new ways for businesses to offer products and services to their customers. In the past, the ability to connect with millions of customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week was only possible for the largest ...