Re: How to create security awareness in top management

[Petrus Repo <petrus.repo () nodeta fi>]

Hello!

I recommend that you read Bruce Schneier's "Secrets & Lies - Digital
Security in a Networked World"[*]. It will really help you to see the
security field as a whole and, therefore, aid you to build your
presentation.

In the book, there are some good stories and allegories from history
also - quoting them in an appropriate manner will make your presentation
more understandable for the elderly people in the top management.

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you
don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."

 [*] = http://www.schneier.com/book-sandl.html


Best regards,

 Petrus Repo


* itsec.info <itsec.info () gmail com> [02.10.2006 22:46]:

> I have got a job to make top management aware that their company must
> take care about information security (presentation and discussions).
>
> I will not go into too much technical details and I would like to start
> with some good stories which show in an easy and understandable way
> that information security is needed.
>
> Does anybody has some information where I can take out some good ideas to
> start with?
>
> --
> Any help is very much appreciated.
> Regards,
> Mike

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