Security issues have a potentially significant impact on business and can result not just in financial losses, but damage to reputation and operational downtime. In addition, demonstrating system security, regulatory compliance and good governance is now expected by customers, partners and shareholders alike. Loss of sensitive data stored on disks and memory sticks, sale of personal information by outsourced companies and daily incidents of identity theft and fraud all underline the fact that companies today need to analyse how to improve security through the implementation of cost effective security controls aligned with business risk.

Information leakage Unauthorized access or leakage of data could have a devastating effect on an organization, not just from a reputational/brand perspective but also financially and legally.

Electronic espionage Organizations are under attack from electronic espionage. The attacks are coming not only from the usual suspects but from sources you may never have considered.