ABSTRACT
SECURITY MANAGEMENT TEAM JUSTIFICATION
Information technology departments have always had to
justify their budgets. With the recent global economic
changes, the pressures of maintaining stockholder values
have brought IT budgets under even more intense scrutiny.
Migrations, new technology implementations, and even
staff spending have been either been delayed, reduced, or
removed from budgets. So how is it that an organization
can justify the expense, much less the existence, of an
information security management team? While most inter-
nal departments lack the necessary skill sets to address
security, there are three compelling reasons to establish
this team:
