Cross-Organizational Information Security Breaches

Nobody would argue that it is vitally important, in the overall scheme of things, to discovering information security breaches as soon after they have occurred as possible. That is common sense after all. And as our systems become ever more complex, so this common sense approach becomes ever increasingly critical. Not only from the strictly security oriented perspective either, but also from a financial one because the later in the lifecycle such exposures are revealed so the more expensive they become to fix. This basic rule applies whether we are talking about communication breaches, OS breaches or application breaches. But the most damaging of all, and ironically the ones likely to be discovered latest of all within a system’s lifecycle, are cross-organisation information security breaches.