General Security Concepts: Business Processes and Security Operations Flashcards
Sometimes, an organization’s business processes might not align with, and can impact, its security operations. Among those processes or groups that can affect security operations are:
Stakeholders
Approval Process
Impact analysis
standard operating procedures
Maintenance windows
Backout Plans
What are the stake holders?
Stakeholders, who typically have a strong interest in an organization
How can stake holders affect the business operations affectively and negatively?
Positively, by helping ensure alignment of security objectives and enabling security awareness and compliance within an organization.
Negatively, by resisting the implementation of security measures, overlooking vulnerabilities, decreasing security awareness, and compromising overall security posture.
What are the positive and negative affects of the approval process?
Approval processes, which can affect operations:
Positively, by enhancing decision-making through the consideration of diverse perspectives, thereby increasing the likelihood of well-informed and secure changes.
Negatively, by resulting in miscommunication and uncontrolled changes, disruptions, errors, and security vulnerabilities.
Within the approval proccess what can also affect the positive and negative imapacts business operations?
Ownership, which can affect operations:
Positively, by clearly defining and assigning responsibility for an asset’s management, maintenance, and security throughout its lifecycle.
Negatively, a lack of ownership can lead to diminished accountability, which makes it challenging to identify responsible parties if security incidents or breaches occur.
What is an impact analysis?
Impact analysis, which examines the possible effects of changes within a business.
What are the positive and negative affects of it?
Impact analysis can affect operations:
Positively by enabling you to assess potential consequences of proposed changes. Organizations then can use the test results to make strategic data-driven decisions and provide risk mitigation to ensure a successful systematic approach to implementing changes.
Negatively if changes are implemented without a comprehensive understanding of their potential consequences. Results might be unanticipated disruptions, financial losses, decreased user satisfaction or confidence, and impaired organizational performance.
What can standard operating procedures affect positively and negatively in the business operations?
Positively by helping ensure security measures and protocols are consistently integrated into the change process, thereby enhancing an organization’s ability to mitigate security risks during transitions.
Negatively, as failure to integrate security into standard operating procedures within change management can result in increased security vulnerabilities, data breaches, noncompliance with regulations, and damage to an organization’s reputation.
What can maintenance window affect positively and negativelyin operations?
Positively by helping ensure that changes occur during scheduled, non-critical times; minimizing disruptions; enhancing coordination; and improving overall operational efficiency.
Negatively, because of unplanned service interruptions, conflicts, and operational disruptions due to changes occurring at inopportune times.
Back out plans can affect?
Positively by providing a safety net, allowing organizations to revert to a previous state if changes result in issues. This minimizes downtime and helps ensure business continuity.
Negatively, by introducing prolonged downtime, data loss, service disruptions, and increased risk of issues during changes that you can’t resolve rapidly.
