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Chapter 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0978-5.ch005
INTRODUCTION
A strong trend in information security management
in organisations under the last decade has been
standardization, certifications and development of
best practices (B. von Solms, 2000). Consequently,
information security management standards are
seen as a basis for successful security management
in organisations and have become widely used
for security management (Siponen, 2006). The
most known and widespread standard today is the
ISO/IEC 17799 – Information Security Code of
Practice (Freeman, 2007; ISO/IEC 17799, 2005).
Although there are obvious advantages of using
international standard for security management,
various researchers point out that applying such
standards without enough consideration to the
specifics of the organisation may be detrimental
Ella Kolkowska
Örebro University School of Business, Sweden
Karin Hedström
Örebro University School of Business, Sweden
Fredrik Karlsson
Örebro University School of Business, Sweden
Analyzing Information
Security Goals
ABSTRACT
One of the problems highlighted within the area of information security is that international standards are
implemented in organisations without adopting them to special organisational settings. In this chapter
the authors analyse information security goals found in hospital settings. They found that the CIA-triad
fails to cover organisational specifc information security goals in hospital settings. They found also that
information security goals held by information security managers and business managers are not the
same, implying that both these groups should be involved in designing of information security goals, in
order to fnd information security goals relevant for the organisation. Finally, the authors found goal
maps used in this study for analysis of empirical data, to be a useful tool for analysis and communica-
tion of information security goals in an organisation.