Understanding the Level of Organizational Support You Receive

Understanding the Level of Organizational Support You Receive

The level of support that you receive from your organization from management to your end users greatly determines how you will secure network resources. This is often called your organization s security position or security posture. The security position of your organization includes the level of executive sponsorship for security policies and procedures, security requirements mandated by industry or government regulations, end user compliance with security policies and procedures, and training for end users and administrators. Your organization s security policies and procedures are central to the level of organizational support that you have.

In general, the completeness and clarity of an organization s security policies and procedures can indicate the support network administrators will receive for securing a network. Failing to understand your organization s security position can result in you oversecuring network resources to the point that end users will work around security measures and cause security vulnerabilities. For example, your organization might create policies that greatly restrict the types of Web applications that can be installed on a Web server, causing departments to purchase and deploy their own Web servers. Because the IT department does not know of the rogue Web servers, it cannot manage the application of security updates and services packs to those servers.



Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit
Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit
ISBN: 0735621748
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 189

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