Information security management
controls that an organization needs to implement for protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of assets from threats and vulnerabilities
Information security management (ISM) defines and manages controls that an organization needs to implement to ensure that it is sensibly protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of assets from threats and vulnerabilities. The core of ISM includes information risk management, a process that involves the assessment of the risks an organization must deal with in the management and protection of assets, as well as the dissemination of the risks to all appropriate stakeholders. This requires proper asset identification and valuation steps, including evaluating the value of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and replacement of assets. As part of information security management, an organization may implement an information security management system and other best practices found in the ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, and ISO/IEC 27035 standards on information security.
Information security management has become an increasingly important part of modern organizations as it helps secure large databases often found within large organizations. These databases often store sensitive information, such as personal identifiers and financial records. A breach in these databases can ruin a company's reputation or put millions of people's information at risk. For this reason, information security management is often discussed alongside cybersecurity practices, many of which are directly correlated or directly used in Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).
Risk management and mitigation
Managing information security in essence means managing and mitigating the various threats and vulnerabilities to assets, while at the same time balancing the management effort expended on potential threats and vulnerabilities by gauging the probability of them actually occurring. These ideas can be summarized into the Protection Motivation Theory, or PMT. The PMT "seeks to explain why individuals adopt or engage in protective behavior." There are two main mechanisms of the PMT: threat appraisals and coping appraisals.
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