http://www.csoonline.com/article/741757/thinking-outside-the-it-audit-check-box
By George V. Hulme
CSO Online
October 21, 2013
After years of security teams reaching into the regulatory compliance
budget bucket to find the funding they need for their security efforts,
some organizations are noticing that while it won short-term capital, the
practice has come back to haunt them in the long run. And while it does
sound cliche to hear that compliance does not equal security, many
enterprises are taking steps to make sure their focus is on building
resilient IT and not merely on passing an audit.
A recent report from the IT expert professional community Wisegate, Moving
From Compliance to Risk-Based Security, found that the top driver for
implementing a risk management program is to meet regulatory compliance
requirements. Fewer than half of respondents cited the general threat
landscape or an interest in getting in front of attackers.
That troubling attitude could explain why so many organizations remain in
firefighting mode—jumping from one breach or security emergency to the
next without any chance of getting in front of the risk.
While it can certainly be argued, and strongly so, that security wasn't
taken seriously in the days prior to regulatory mandates such as
Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, and the myriad other regulations and data breach
disclosure laws that followed, it's also certainly tougher to make the
strong case that, long term, organizations are better off today for their
efforts. Disappointingly, many organizations are doing only the minimum of
what needs to be done in order to pass the next audit and to be able to
show management that their IT systems are compliant.
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