Information Security: Ask This;

Information Security: Ask This;

TLDR: Ask This;

1. Does your organization have an information security management system to manage your organizations information security?

2. Does your organization have an information security implementation strategy as per the risk analysis results that its implementation is undertaken as part of your organizations work plan?

3. Does your organization have a strategy for the use of information security technologies that are implemented and updated according to the needs and changes in the risk profile?

4. Does your organization have a written and periodically updated information security plan that includes the log management infrastructure and surrounding policies and procedures?

5. What governance arrangements does your organization have in place to implement and maintain its information security plans and measures?

6. Does your organization have an ongoing information security risk assessment program that considers new and evolving threats to online accounts?

7. Do you have an engaging and effective information security awareness program in place across your organization designed to influence and drive new cyber resilient behaviours?

8. Do you outsource your information security management to a qualified organization specializing in security or have staff responsible for and trained in information security?

9. What action has your organization taken to ensure that testing and evaluating controls becomes an ongoing element of departments overall information security management programs?

10. Does your organization have a documented and approved information security plan, that includes a dedicated data protection security team?

11. What role does that have in an information security program, how often should your organization conduct tests and what factors should go into determining the frequency of tests?

12. Does the vendor have designated cybersecurity personnel, as a Chief Information Security Officer, and does the vendor require its staff to undergo cybersecurity and data privacy training?

13. Does your organization have language in supplier agreements which govern the transfer, use and storage of customer information and protect against fraud and other information security breaches?

14. Does your organization have a current information security policy that has been approved by executive management?

15. Does organization has an access control policy that shall be established, documented and reviewed based on business and information security requirement?

16. Does your organization have a complete set of information security policies to address all PCI DSS requirements?

17. Has your organization implemented a risk assessment program to proactively identify information security and business continuity risks?

18. Do you have a written information security strategy that seeks to cost effectively measure risk and specify actions to manage risk at an acceptable level, with minimal business disruptions?

19. Are there processes and procedures established for information security requirements for each type of vendor and type of access based on your organizations business needs and the risk profile?

20. Does your organization have established procedures to track and document information security incidents on an ongoing basis?

21. Does the data controller have a security policy setting out management commitment to information security within your organization?

22. Does the receiving party have a documented information security policy and supporting procedures, and are the individuals who will handle the data trained accordingly?

23. Does your organization have coordinated and measurable information security and cybersecurity awareness programs?

24. Does your organization have established processes for escalating and responding to information security incidents within all organizational departments and functions?

25. Does your organization have defined parameters, metrics and performance measurement mechanisms for information security management?

26. Is information security risk assessment a regular agenda item at it and business management meetings and does management follow through and support improvement initiatives?

27. Do the leaders and staff of your information security organization have the necessary experience and qualifications?

28. Do you outsource your information security to your organization specializing in information security or have staff responsible for implementation and training in information security?

29. Does the board/executive management team have a comprehensive understanding of information security to fully evaluate cyber risks and preventive measures?

30. Do you have a procedure to perform an identification, analysis and evaluation of the information security risks possibly affecting personal data and the IT systems supporting the processing?

31. Do you have an official information security architecture, based on your Risk Management analysis and information security strategy?

32. Does your organization establish, document, implement and maintain processes, procedures and controls to ensure the required level of continuity for information security during an adverse situation?

33. Do you have a person, group or outside information security organization responsible for your information security?

34. Does your organization have defined the requirements/standards of competence and expertise of information security management?

35. Do you clarify the information security risks that exist whenever your suppliers have access to your organizations assets?

36. Which would best help to ensure compliance with your organizations information security requirements by an it service provider?

37. Does your organizations information security function have documented, implemented and maintained processes to maintain continuity of service in an adverse situation?

38. What oversight should the information security team have in the change management process for application security?

39. Will your risk analyses be completed by appropriately certified information security professionals who have completed hundreds of HIPAA Risk Analyses for Covered Entities and Business Associates?

40. Has your organization implemented an information security management performance appraisal program for the individual of the executor?

41. Does technology performance always have to take a hit to ensure information security or is it the case that the challenge lies at the infrastructure level?

42. Does the service provider have a formal change control process for it changes and are information security implications a formalized part of change control and review?

43. Which would best help to ensure your organizations information security strategy is aligned with business objectives?

44. Do executive and line management take formal action to support information security through clearly documented direction and commitment, and ensure the action has been assigned?

45. Is your organization prepared for the inevitable transition in information security where you need to bring protection to the data level?

46. Do you have written contracts in place to enforce your information security policy and procedures with third party service providers?

47. Is there a person or organization that has information security as primary duty, with responsibility for maintaining the security program and ensuring compliance?

48. Does it have an information security program with established policies, standards, controls, and technology to secure and monitor the platform?

Organized by Key Themes: SECURITY, MANAGEMENT, DATA, INFORMATION, RISK, PRIVACY, SYSTEMS, COMPLIANCE, PROJECT, DEVELOPMENT:

SECURITY:

How do you know where to invest to reduces your cyber risks?

Make sure the Information Technologies Security Officer leads and manages development of information security strategies and plans to prevent the unauthorized use, release, modification, loss or destruction of data and other information assets; facilitates the involvement of key stakeholders in plan development processes designed to assess the business impacts of various security approaches and develop security plans that balance security needs with business operational requirements, stakeholders and team members; leads and participates in plan development tasks, including conducting risk assessments; evaluating security management options; developing procedures and protocols, including designating and training of primary and backup recovery teams, develops and implements comprehensive communications plans and tools. 

Does your organization have an ongoing information security risk assessment program that considers new and evolving threats to online accounts?

Ensure your operation is responsible for coordinating and scheduling information security and data protection impact assessments with business owners, working with team members to conduct assessments and develop remediation plans using evolving business processes and tools, documenting the effort in a Third Party Risk Management tool and following up with business owners on remediation plans. 

Who are responsible for, and what is the process involved with information security strategic planning at your organization?

Be certain that your process is responsible for the Information Security Department which is Be sure your workforce is responsible for the adherence to the required privacy and information security compliance program activities including data classification, privacy impact assessments, product and service risk assessments, vendor due diligence, data management and protection, and meeting compliance program operational needs. 

What is the potential negative impact on your organization if information is disclosed to unauthorized personnel?

Work with the Information Security Risk and Compliance team to support the development and updating of your (internal) clients security policies and standards and ensure the ongoing compliance with both regulatory obligations and internally developed policies and standards that are in alignment with industry standards. 

Do you are assess your exposure to information security and privacy threats at least yearly, and enhance your risk controls in response to changes?

Lead cyber strategy and participate in the strategic planning for the design and implementation of an Enterprise Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) which includes appropriate policies, procedures, operational considerations, IT change control, and IT risk and compliance management programs. 

What is emerging as best practice in terms of dealing with the new GDPR requirements for data processing, data controlling and data protection?

Make sure the Head of IT Compliance is responsible for building and maintaining the enterprises capabilities regarding IT compliance, information security policies and risk management, and for ensuring that IT environments across the enterprise are operated in line with those policies, (internal) client contract commitments and in a manner which protects the business from existing and emerging technology risks. 

How do you get started figuring out how well your organization performs on information security?

Make sure the Technical Lead Engineer partners with the Business Information Security Officers to review incoming projects for Information Security requirements, determines the scope of Information Security services needed to address project demands, performs quality control on Information Security threat and vendor risk management products, and mentors team members. 

What gaps or concerns with the information security profile would prevent voluntary extension to write operations by a data holder?

Partner with business stakeholders across your organization to raise awareness of risk management concerns, and ensure clear and timely advice is provided to executive management on key information security and assurance issues. 

How do you improve cybersecurity?

Lead information security initiatives that minimize risk and maximize compliance by facilitating assessments, managing audit fulfillment and remediation of risks, governing of business data and records, monitoring adherence to information security controls and compliance standards, supporting business continuity and disaster recovery compliance, leading specific security initiatives, and coaching and mentoring to improve information security awareness and standards. 

Is there an information security oversight function that provides clear direction and visible management support for security initiatives within your organization?

Liaison so that your team provides feedback on Information Security and Technology Risk programs to ensure relevant industry regulations, standards and compliance requirements are met. 

MANAGEMENT:

How do you end date a worker who has left your organization?

Oversee that your organization establishes architecture oversight and planning for information and network security technologies; leads development of an information security risk management program that includes business, regulatory, industry practices and technical environment considerations; establishes strategic vendor relationships for security products and services; develops enterprise-wide security incident response plans and strategies that includes integration with business, compliance, privacy, and legal constituents and requirements; provides advanced level engineering design functions; provides trouble resolution and serves as point of technical escalation on complex problems. 

Does an information security policy exist that is distributed to all relevant system users, including vendors, contractors and business partners?

Partner with Enterprise Architecture, IT Risk Management teams, IT Finance, IT Transformation Management Office and Information Security to ensure alignment of solution design with information security standards, architecture standards, governance and compliance requirements. 

How do you store the information?

Assure your staff liaise with other teams in information security and risk management, infrastructure and architecture management as well as business functions to deliver the target technology environment and operationalize IT objectives. 

What changes to any regulatory guidance or mandates will affect your organizations information security policies?

Perform various other reviews of IT management policies and procedures such as change management, business continuity planning disaster recovery and information security to ensure that controls surrounding these processes are adequate. 

What is the security officers role in managing the risks involved in using open source and third party software?

Verify that your team is involved in information security programs, audits, controls, assessments, risk assessments, or remediation management (specific to Security Governance, Risk and Compliance role). 

Does your organization periodically test and evaluate or review its information security and privacy program and practices for each business unit?

Check that your process supports development of an information security risk management program that includes business, regulatory, industry practices and technical environment considerations. 

How do you best investigate information systems security incidents and subsequent damages?

Support information security risk management and continuous monitoring strategy that integrates vulnerability and threat assessment activities to organization operations. 

What are the key issues and influencing factors surrounding the effectiveness of information security management practices?

Certify your process develops and implements information systems plans based on business requirements, including technology infrastructure modernization, business application solutions, technology operations management and innovation, information security and service/deployment. 

How do you document your software assets?

Be confident that your design supports and collaborates internally to mature the program with Information Security and Business Resilience team members including practice areas of Business Continuity and Crisis Management coordination. 

Do your information security managers have clearly defined roles and responsibilities, with the appropriate reporting lines within the business?

Provide regular reporting on the current status of the information security program to the Executive Team in the context of a strategic risk management program. 

DATA:

Does the security software restrict any access to a resource, provide everyone access, or just audit the access until someone steps forward with resources that need to be protected?

Assess the benefits and the risks of information by using tools such as business capability models to create an information-centric view to quickly visualize what information matters most to the organization based on the defined business strategy; create and manage business information models in all their forms, including conceptual models, relational database designs, message models and others; use tools such as business information models to provide the organization with a future-state view of the information landscape that is unencumbered by the specific data implementation details imposed by proprietary solutions or technologies; lead decision design; participate in the analysis of data and analytics security requirements and solutions and work with the chief information security officer (CISO) and Chief Data Officer (CDO) to ensure that enterprise data and analytics assets are treated as protected assets. 

How do you handle the passwords that protect the objects private key?

Assess, modify, enhance and develop the enterprise strategy for information security and compliance in partnership with peers and business leaders, creating short and long-term initiatives that support business objectives that mitigate company risk and protect data security. 

Which kpis would provide stakeholders with the most useful information about whether information security risk is being managed?

Work with Legal, Compliance, Information Security and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure you have the proper technology, systems and policies to meet data protection requirements and minimize risk and liability of improperly managed information assets. 

Do the leaders and staff of your information security organization have the necessary experience and qualifications?

Lead the Information Security and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance teams and external vendors and service providers to ensure that the disciplines, protections, and procedures are in place to secure organizational systems and data. 

How does the best practices and methodology fit into current information security breach management and incident management processes?

Understand and apply information security best practices, standards, technology tools, systems, policies and processes that are required to ensure the protection of access to and modification of sensitive data including financials, Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and compliance with Data Privacy policies. 

Does the contract contain provisions for the vendor to be engaged in your organizations annual information security risk assessment?

Advise on data privacy and information security legal requirements for your organizations vendor management program, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating data privacy and security provisions in agreements with service providers and business partners. 

How do you keep each member of the team involved and motivated?

Establish that your group is involved in various relevant areas of compliance (GLBA, SOC II, information security models and risk assessments, IT audits, vendor management, data breach, and incident management). 

Is executive management ultimately responsible and accountable for the information security and privacy programs, including approval of information security and privacy policies?

Be certain that your workforce is responsible for design, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of Information Security and Risk Management platforms and controls including perimeter, cloud, data, network, application security, automation/orchestration, and endpoint security. 

How do you see who has associated a user or nominated the additional organization administrator?

Check that your workforce positions in Information Security are responsible for designing and monitoring control systems which ensure the integrity and security of data and for advising on the optimal use of the organizations computing resources. 

What type of optional or mandatory training if any does your organization provide to its end users in maintaining information security?

Make sure the Risk Manager, Information Security and Data Privacy is responsible for managing and maintaining your organizations information security and data privacy program. 

INFORMATION:

Does the provider have a formal process in place for detecting, identifying, analyzing and responding to information security incidents?

Make sure your strategy is determining Identity and Access Management requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements, implementing IAM and information security standards, conducting system and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments, recommending secure architecture aligned to business architecture, and identifying/driving remediation of integration issues in IAM. 

Are security roles and responsibilities defined and documented in accordance with the providers information security policy?

Safeguard that your organization is responsible for working closely with Information Technology and Information Security leadership, business leaders, and functional teams to ensure Disaster Recovery capabilities meet the Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives as defined by Business/Technology Impact Analyses and business requirements. 

Does the industrial security specialist notify the director of information protection of unsatisfactory security reviews of cleared facilities?

Secure that your staff communicates risk assessment findings to team owners and custodians of information risk business partners, or information governance teams and information security teams. 

Should a separate component of corporate governance be considered that focuses specifically on information security and information technology governance?

Warrant that your organization is accountable for establishing and maintaining a strategically sound corporate wide information security program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected, including the oversight and coordination of all information security efforts, insuring consistency with regulatory and compliance requirements that govern cyber security for the enterprise. 

How do you get involved in information sharing partnerships?

Be confident that your team is involved in enterprise security architecture design and implementation for a financial services organization or other organizations with similar information security needs and requirements. 

Does your organization/department/ office have an emergency or disaster plan that specifically includes earthquake disaster response?

Safeguard that your team ensures that information security policies and governance practices are established to ensure the security, confidentiality, and privacy of information resources and supporting IT systems with the BUs overall information security plan. 

How do you know if a vulnerability scan or intrusion detection system improves your information security processes and/or reduces the risk to your information assets?

Acquire and manage the necessary resources to support all IAM functions, including leadership support, financial resources, and key security personnel, to support business and Information Security Organization (ISO) goals, and reduce overall organizational risk. 

How do you restrict, log, and monitor access to your information security management systems?

Safeguard that your workforce works with your organizations Information Security Officer (ISO) and management to establish policies and procedures for database security. 

What are the critical success factors in successfully maintaining and operating your information security management system?

Establish a comprehensive enterprise information security program to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of relevant data, while maintaining compliance with overarching CMMC standards. 

Is the it department maintaining current knowledge of changing data breach, information security and information privacy laws, rules, directives, standards and guidance?

Certify your organization complies with the Information Security Program and is accountable for maintaining a high level of risk and security awareness. 

RISK:

What checks are in place for ensuring that outsourced software development addresses organization information security requirements?

Verify that your staff is helping to ensure the risk management processes align with Business and Information Security objectives while ensuring policy and process compliance. 

Do you provide summary records for all information security incidents related to the service that occurred within the last year?

Partner with the Enterprise Risk Management to define standards and processes and provide subject-matter expertise to oversee vendor information security risk and periodic audits of third-party service providers information security and business continuity controls. 

Do you outsource your information security to your organization specializing in information security or have staff responsible for implementation and training in information security?

Establish that your company is responsible for your organizations Third-Party Risk Management Program including initial and periodic risk assessments, compliance with information security standards, service level agreements and recovery standards, and policy and procedures. 

Have you defined and applied an information security risk assessment process that establishes risk criteria, identifies risks, analyses risks, evaluates risks?

Work with other members of the Information Security Governance Team to analyze and audit processes, implementations, policy adherence and other information sources to evaluate compliance with multiple regulatory standards and risk management objectives. 

How do you quickly quantify the additional value a CASB provides so that it gets a high priority in your already stretched information security budget?

Provide leadership, guidance, and oversight to ensure the implementation and consistent operation of an information security governance, security risk management and compliance program. 

How do you know your vendors can continue to provide the products and services to your critical processes and systems during recovery?

Guarantee your team works closely experienced information security professional, with exposure to risk assessments and auditing, involving one of more areas of identity and access management, application security, infrastructure security, system and data security, physical and environmental security, business continuity/disaster recover, and regulatory/standards compliance. 

Which will best facilitate the understanding of information security responsibilities by users across your organization?

Be confident that your team works across departments to facilitate cyber risk assessment and management processes to ensure consistent application of information security policies. 

Who is responsible for providing technical support for devices, which allow users to access corporate data and store personal information?

Verify that your team supports the Information Security Extended Security Program team in the execution of responsibilities to conduct risk assessments, invest in self-assessment programs, perform technical research on information security and risk topics, and other activities that support information security risk management goals. 

Is the process for identifying and managing risks at an enterprise level connected to information security effectively?

Secure that your design is determining network and ATM centric security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements, researching information security standards, conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments and identifying integration issues. 

How do you engage with other people in your organization?

Safeguard that your personnel facilitates information security and risk management projects with resources from the IT organization and business unit teams. 

PRIVACY:

How do you protect against internal human threats?

Establish that your organization contributes to the continual development and improvement of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) by raising awareness of Information Security risk and privacy compliance obligations. 

What attention has been given to information security, including safeguarding access to information, disposing of information, identity management and the like?

Make sure your design oversees and coordinates privacy and information security compliance program activities, including privacy risk assessments, vendor due diligence and data management and protection. 

Will iot present new and unique security scenarios, or will it be a natural evolution of existing information security practices?

Collaborate with IT Risk, Information Security, and Data Management to ensure alignment between security and privacy compliance programs, including policies, practices, incident response, and investigations. 

Does your organization conduct a periodic independent evaluation or review of its information security and privacy program and practices for each business unit?

Partner with and act as liaison to Information Security and Risk to stay abreast of system related information security plans throughout the organizations network to ensure alignment between security and privacy practices. 

Are changes and improvements to the policies, standards or procedures relating to information security documented within a change log?

Read and analyze new Privacy and Security related laws and regulations in order to identify key regulatory changes impacting health information privacy and security compliance, as well as privacy/information security risks and risk mitigation strategies to ensure adaptation and compliance. 

What best practices will information security organizations adopt to avoid potential legal liability and safeguard information assets?

Work with Director, Information Security and Privacy to ensure that all practices of the Information Security and Privacy program are intelligence and risk driven. 

Are your information security policies, staff, practices, & technologies keeping pace with the rapid rate of new risks?

Be certain that your operation collaborates with Chief Information Security Officer and Information Security department to ensure alignment between security and privacy compliance programs including policies, practices, and investigations. 

How equality groups or communities are involved in the development, review and/or monitoring of the policy or practice?

Provide responses to information security and privacy risk assessments and conducts related ongoing compliance monitoring and remediation activities. 

How do you structure efforts to do meaningful experiments?

Ensure your process works with the Chief Information Security Officers team to ensure consistency of practices and avoid duplication of effort on HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security areas of overlap. 

How do you determine if training improves quality?

Collaborate with and train other departments on your organizations privacy programs, information security policies and procedures, and all related compliance requirements and obligations, including proactively working to improve the privacy aspects of the contract negotiation process. 

SYSTEMS:

Has there been any investigation to determine whether your organizations records were stolen once the attackers gained access to the data center?

Determine security requirements for business processes and technology systems based upon generally accepted risk analysis methods, functional and performance requirements, information security architecture principles, and market-leading solutions. 

Do you include information security related requirements in the requirements for new information systems or enhancements to existing information systems?

Support your Lead Security Analyst to develop, maintain and execute organizational processes, procedures, guidelines, and business systems for implementing and enforcing Arise Information Security policies and standards, regulatory requirements, contractual agreements/obligations and any other IT-related security, compliance and privacy requirements. 

How do you protect against damaging and costly data breaches?

Advise both enterprise and program management on risk levels, security posture and cost/benefit analysis of information security programs, policies, processes, systems, and elements. 

Who does the most senior person in your organization responsible for information security/cybersecurity report to?

Ensure proactive compliance of IT security systems, processes and controls with organization information security program, security policies and regulatory compliance guidelines. 

How do you evaluate the benefits of a security investment?

Be sure your process collaborates with Information Security, peers, and vendor partners to invest in the development of appropriate policies, procedures, and controls to ensure the integrity and security of the information systems. 

How do you quickly quantify the additional value a CASB provides so that it gets a high priority in your already stretched information security budget?

Warrant that your staff develops, establishes, and oversees information security policies and strategies; ensures that appropriate security controls are implemented; develops disaster recovery plans; deploys backup, restore, and recovery systems; provides security training, etc. 

Does the information contain personal details of key operating personnel as biographical data, contact information, names, addresses, or telephone numbers?

Confirm that your process oversees and reviews access to systems in order to maintain security in accordance with information security best practices and IT standard operating procedures. 

How an it governance process can enable the enterprise to effectively manage its strategic information security objectives?

Be certain that your workforce develops detailed proposals and plans for new information security systems that would enhance or enable new capabilities for network or host systems, software and equipment. 

Do it systems generate audit logs to the extent needed to enable the monitoring, analysis, investigation and reporting of unlawful, unauthorized or inappropriate activities?

Ensure compliance with overarching Reserve Systems Information security policies, practices, and standards, through proactive monitoring and consulting. 

Are shared leadership behaviors positively related to greater effectiveness of security practices, and to greater compliance with security policies?

Assure your organization maintains expert knowledge in the field of Information Security and the related issues, systems, processes, products, and services. 

COMPLIANCE:

How do you know which is right to meet your customers requirements?

Ensure the technology and practices used by the business are both in compliance with Enterprise Information Security policies and standards and meet the specific business goals. 

Which would best help to ensure your organizations information security strategy is aligned with business objectives?

Develop and oversee the creation, implementation, and maintenance of privacy and information security policies and procedures at the business unit, consistent with the corporations compliance standards and aligned with the corporate strategy. 

Do applications provide access to only the owner; other nominated authorized individuals; or defined groups of users?

Ensure your organization needs in depth knowledge in information security and assurance program management with involvement in risk, audit, and compliance management leveraging framework. 

Do you build desktop and server platforms that an adversary connected directly to one of your core networks cannot cause damage or have access to protected data?

Develop and implement effective and reasonable policies and practices to secure protected and sensitive data and ensure information security and compliance with relevant legislation and legal interpretation. 

What governance arrangements does your organization have in place to implement and maintain its information security plans and measures?

Develop and maintain standards, policies, and associated security awareness documentation to ensure compliance with data privacy and information security regulations. 

How do you know the enterprise is compliant with applicable rules and regulations?

Ensure your process manages the ongoing preparation, testing, and monitoring of compliance with information security standards and organization regulations and regulatory agencies as it relates to the design, development, and deployment of products and services. 

Does your organization have an information security implementation strategy as per the risk analysis results that its implementation is undertaken as part of your organizations work plan?

Work with Information Security and PCI Auditor to ensure that system designs are vetted for potential PCI compliance conflicts before such designs are implemented. 

Are changes and improvements to the policies, standards or procedures relating to information security applied as needed?

Comprehend and enforce applicable laws, regulations and compliance relating to IT and information security and privacy, working closely with other departments. 

Do you are assess your organizations information security risks whenever changes to supplier services are being considered?

Liaison so that your workforce is involved in other control disciplines have to be considered (compliance, legal, regulatory, audit, information security or risk). 

How do you drive innovation while mitigating risk, ensuring continuous compliance and maintaining security?

Verify that your design is ensuring successful collaboration and alignment with key business leaders (Technology, Information Security, Software Engineering, Finance, Compliance, and Legal) for all Technology compliance efforts. 

PROJECT:

Does the board/executive management team have a comprehensive understanding of information security to fully evaluate cyber risks and preventive measures?

Use Risk Management Framework, Security and Privacy Controls, and CIS Critical Controls, and FedRAMP to evaluate information security policy and architecture, and projects in compliance with state laws. 

How can managed service providers, technology, and information security leaders within smb markets build a program that can quickly recapture costs and poor decisions?

Make sure the Information Security Analyst participates in projects and works with business units to provide requirements on implementation of controls. 

Does your organization have coordinated and measurable information security and cybersecurity awareness programs?

Provide architectural guidance, identify and communicate security requirements, and coordinate with teams to ensure proper implementation for Enterprise and Information Security Projects. 

What is the biggest information security roadblock for organizations attempting to achieve Sarbanes Oxley compliance?

Take responsibility for or participate in a variety of ad hoc information security projects that are dictated by current business and technical developments. 

How do information security teams support development teams with the tools needed to reduce vulnerabilities without interfering with developers delivery oriented priorities?

Track the various information security audits across Internal Audit, planning the security audit project work, resource tracking, and ensuring the quality of the audits by validating the information security audits tools and templates are being successfully used to successfully deliver the audits. 

Is the head of information security also responsible for security asset management with clearly defined protocols for the access and operation?

Engage in information security projects that evaluate existing security infrastructure and propose changes as defined by security leadership and architects. 

Which is most important for an information security manager to communicate to senior management regarding the security program?

Manage compiling weekly, monthly and quarterly metrics and reporting with regard to the current state of SMEs information security program and specific projects/activities. 

How do you know your vendors can continue to provide the products and services to your critical processes and systems during recovery?

Verify that your group is working with the LOB business leaders, application managers, and Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure Architects, and project teams to analyze your technology portfolio and provide recommendations for simplification, modernization and optimization of your technology assets. 

How do you increase conformance to good information security behaviours?

Consult, advise or oversee the secure design of key IT system and infrastructure projects to ensure alignment with enterprise security architecture. 

Is there an IT planning process in place that ensures that the IT solutions being developed comply with IT Security policy?

Ensure your process ensures technology projects are built and documented in accordance with your strict internal and external regulations, including information security, privacy and GxP and all relevant compliance requirements. 

DEVELOPMENT:

Which international compliance standard provides guidelines for information security controls applicable to the provision and use of cloud services?

Be sure your organization analyzes and recommends security controls and procedures in acquisition, development, and change management lifecycle of information systems, and provides oversight to ensure compliance. 

Do executive and line management take formal action to support information security through clearly documented direction and commitment, and ensure the action has been assigned?

Ensure your M and A Enterprise Architecture team provides the leadership and oversight for the pre-diligence, due diligence, and integration of New Business Development efforts, M and As, and Investments by executing various activities that are in-scope of your technical and information security programs. 

Are you are actively monitoring your network and have learned to detect anomalous behavior like burst traffic, forged packets or unused protocols?

Confirm that your design delivers full support to the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for the ongoing development, oversight, and continuous monitoring of the Information Security Program (ISP). 

How do you improve business agility through a more flexible IT environment?

Secure that your group oversees the development of policies and procedures to reduce risk, strengthen internal controls and compliance to information security standards, and improve quality. 

How effective is your participation with cyber intelligence information sharing in your organizations information security program?

Oversee that your personnel ensures proper risk and information security oversight are built into the product development lifecycle and facilitates the participation of these stakeholders during requirements gathering and development. 

How do you uniquely identify a hardware asset?

Work closely with your Information Security team to ensure that your development teams are implementing security best practices and remediating any vulnerabilities. 

How do you mitigate information security and privacy risk?

Warrant that your personnel monitors recent information security threats and invest in a development of proactive solutions to mitigate risk at project and maintenance levels. 

Does the school have a data protection officer on staff responsible for implementing security and privacy policies?

Make sure the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is responsible for security strategy, security program oversight and security architecture development and implementation for your organization. 

Is your organization making appropriate levels of investment and efforts with respect to the technical, physical and administrative aspects of information security?

Work with IT Operations, Information Security and Application Development teams to invest in the development of strategies and plans for improving infrastructure, architecture and application security. 

Which best indicates that information security will be considered when new it technologies are implemented across your organization?

Make sure there is involvement to indicate a record of information security awareness and discipline in information systems development and sustainment.