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InfoSec Paper: Creating Business Through Virtual Trust



Information Security Community,

Please consider our paper - "Creating Business Through Virtual Trust: How to Gain and Sustain a Competitive Advantage Using Information Security" - for your review.

Here is the abstract from our paper:

"Cash. Profit. Margins. Productivity. This is the language of business. At this time, it is not the language of information security. Business is concerned with the creation of new entities and assets that generate cash. Information security, by contrast, is traditionally concerned with protecting these entities and assets. In this paper we examine a perspective which currently exists but is largely dormant in the information security field. We maintain that information security can be actively involved in the creation of business and that the skills required to create commercial activity must be added to the information security professional’s intellectual tool set. We also present evidence to demonstrate that the capability of security to create business, which we designate by the term “virtual trust”, may become a dominant paradigm for how to think about information security."

The paper may be downloaded here:
http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/VT-belva-dekay-final.pdf

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Thanks for your interest. We look forward to a productive discussion.

Sincerely,
Kenneth F. Belva & Sam H. Dekay