Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook For Today's Global Economy

Chapter 18. Mapping Your Future

This book has examined how technology and the global marketplace have ushered in a shift in the way business gets done. The global economy has provided a deep pool of resources, but it has also unleashed security threats that are growing in quantity and veracity of scale and complexity. Crossing borders opened you up to more than your fair share of these threats. You are at risk every time you send an e-mail, patch a system, or train a person. However, significant market and profit expansion is afoot, and countless companies are trying to leverage both. This shift has also delivered what I call a moment of inflection, because most companies have sailed forth without giving much thought to global corporate security, ...