Over the last few years computing has changed to an almost purely networked environment, but the technical aspects of information protection have not kept up. As a result, the success of information security programmes has increasingly become a function of our ability to make prudent management decisions about organizational activities. Managing Network Security takes a management view of protection and seeks to reconcile the need for security with the limitations of technology.
How organizations succeed
Organizations do not run themselves.
They are run by top-level managers whose job it is to exercise controls so as to bring about success.
Like a truck travelling down a highway, the boss uses powers of observation and technological aides to view how things are going, understand the situation, and make adjustments to keep things going in the right direction. The better the view, understanding, and controls, the better the boss will be able to control the organization, and the better (we hope) the organization will operate. Now comes the information age. The very nature of the way we work is changing, and over a period of only a few years, the value of the elements of our organizations has shifted. In the industrial . age, inventory, manufacturing and available cash were the major elements