Strategies & Issues: Justifying Security Spending
This attention from upper management may be a welcome change to security professionals. For one thing, it validates their hard work. For another, it gives them direct access to decision makers and check signers.
But increased awareness also means increased scrutiny. Executives are asking just what those firewall gurus are up to, and how they're spending the money they've been allocated. Now that security has earned the attention of the CEO, it has to be justified in language that the CEO understands.
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