Re: best place for IT Security team in the company organisation

[Kenneth Swain <ken () kenswain com>]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:51 AM, soul wrote:

> Hi All
> In my company , there is a issue regarding the ITSEC Team place in  
> the company organisation. We have IT Department with telecoms &  
> network division, Applications development Division, and Business  
> process Division.
> Initially, the ITSEC team is rattached directly to Director of the  
> IT Department office. But now, some people want the Security Team  
> to be splited as follow in two :
>  - strategy, BCP & policies rattached to IT Director office or the  
> Vice-president office
> -  and security operations (only Firewall admin, VPN implementation  
> and admin)  rattached to the telecoms and network Division.
>
> Could you advice me on the issue..... some best practices...
>
> thank you

In our organization we have it split where strategy happens in one  
department and operations happens in another. In my opinion you  
really do not want the InfoSec department reporting to the Directory  
of IT. It normally does much better when it is set under its own  
director.


Ken Swain
ken () kenswain com
http://kenswain.com