Secure Information Sharing
-- A view of the different levels for
protecting business critical information --
For the last several years there has been an increasing focus on network security, not only from the
professionals who run networks, but also from business leaders, industry groups and government agencies.
While most of this added focus has come under the banner of customer data protection, the implementation of
these added controls often misses the mark. Network owners tend to fall back on the traditional strategy of
protecting the network rather than protecting the information on the network, which is really the desired
outcome of the increased focus on security.
Before looking deeper into the issue of network security, it may be a good idea to briefly remind ourselves of
why networks exist in the first place. Despite the exponential growth and sophistication of networks, at its
most basic level, networks still exists to enable the sharing of information between people and/or devices.
As networks proliferated through organizations, cyber criminals evolved in sophistication at an alarming rate,
resulting in broken networks and stolen critical business information. The network was sharing the
information, now it was time to secure that information—Secure Information Sharing. Organizations have spent
millions of dollars protecting their network, focusing on protecting the network or access to it with firewalls,
access controls and the like, rather than securing the actual sharing of information.
While protecting the actual network is important, it certainly falls short of enabling Secure Information Sharing
(SIS). So why then have we come so far with network security awareness with so little focus on this critical
piece? The reason is that technology limitations in encryption, widely viewed as the best approach to SIS, made
it extremely difficult and operationally expensive to implement a Secure Information Sharing strategy....
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