Security Policies and Implementation Issues, 3rd Edition

Human Nature in the Workplace

A successful security policy implementation depends on people understanding key concepts and embracing the material. Understanding and influencing different personalities in the workplace will be important to achieving that success. But it’s not just the needs of the internal employee you need to consider. A variety of stakeholders will have an interest in information security policies, including external parties such as vendors, customers, and regulators. As competition grows globally, new channels of sales and products appear. These factors are usually accompanied by a change in technologies. Enormous efforts and resources are spent to document, debug, and map an organization’s processes to these technologies. ...