Analyzing Information Security Goals

One of the problems highlighted within the area of information security is that international standards are implemented in organisations without adopting them to special organisational settings. In this chapter the authors analyse information security goals found in hospital settings. They found that the CIA-triad fails to cover organisational specific information security goals in hospital settings. They found also that information security goals held by information security managers and business managers are not the same, implying that both these groups should be involved in designing of information security goals, in order to find information security goals relevant for the organisation. Finally, the authors found goal maps used in this study for analysis of empirical data, to be a useful tool for analysis and communication of information security goals in an organisation.