Paradigm Switch Consulting Ltd

Turning the approach to Information Security on its head

Paradigm Switch Consulting Services

Information Security

Information security is a never ending journey not a destination in its own right. If you start with this principle you will understand that security is a process not a product.

PSC can review your business operations and systems with a view to identifying the information risks facing the business, what can be done to mitigate them and the corporate governance arrangements that need to be put in place to ensure effective IT and information security governance is in place.

Information can be defined as "data endowed with meaning and purpose." Today, it plays an increasingly important role in all aspects of our lives. Information has become an indispensable component of conducting business for virtually all organisations. In a growing number of companies, information is the business, it has increasingly become one of their most important assets without which conducting business would not be possible.

This growing dependence of organisations on their information and the systems, processes and people that handle it, coupled with the risks, benefits and opportunities these resources present, have made information security and its governance an increasingly critical facet of overall governance. Of primary concern will be ensuring:

• Confidentiality - prevention of unintended disclosure
• Integrity - assurance that data has not been subject to unauthorised modification
• Availability - accessible and usable when required

of information assets. Compliance with the Data Protection Act; Computer Misuse Act; Copyright Designs & Patents Act; Electronic Communications Act and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to name but a few will also be of paramount concern. Recent news events in this area should bring this issue to the forefront as an area for Boards of Directors to get to grips with.

In addition to addressing legal and regulatory requirements, effective information security governance and risk management is simply good business and is becoming mandatory in the exercise of due care.

Contact us to discuss how we can help you manage your IT and Information security risk. Email info@paradigmswitch.com and one of our consultants will contact you very shortly.