The Business Case for Information Security: Selling Management on the Protection of Vital Secrets and Products

If the world was rational and individuals as well as organizations always operated on that basis, this

chapter would not have to be written. After all, who can argue with the need for protecting vital secrets

and products? Why would senior managers not understand the need for spending adequate funds and

other resources to protect their own bottom line? Why not secure information as it flows throughout the

corporation and sometimes around the world?