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Understanding Information Intensity and Cybersecurity for Strategic Success

While many regard cybersecurity as a compliance mandate, this ICF International white paper explores the "information intensity" that many enterprises argue for cybersecurity to be treated as intrinsic to the value proposition and an element of corporate strategy. Discussions relating to cybersecurity, including those at the Board and C-Suite levels, continue to be dominated by questions of risk and compliance. Senior decision-makers seek to understand the cybersecurity risks to enterprise operations, public safety, privacy information, intellectual property, and economic viability. Boards seek to know if corporate executives understand and are addressing the myriad controls, requirements, and standards pertinent to the cybersecurity of each industry. Government department and agency executives hold tight to analogous concerns relating to the Federal Information Security Management Act, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, and other requirements. In all of these cases, cybersecurity is treated as a cost to be borne where necessary and minimized if possible. Seen as a mandate, cybersecurity is all-too-frequently regarded as yet one more problem to be addressed with constrained resources.

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Understanding Information Intensity and Cybersecurity for Strategic Success