Information Security in Business Organizations

A business has many influences that provide a duel effect on its operations. Not only can they cause the business to undergo change and continually adjust to the external factors in the business environment, but they also provide threats and opportunities in the operations process.

Owning a business, or managing, within a business, can be a challenging process and ultimately effect the success, failure and bottom line. There are many external forces, or environments, that influence decisions that are ultimately made by Board of Directors, executives, supervisors and management teams. This can have an economic effect locally or ultimately have a global reach. Today’s focus is on the differences between the macro and competitive business environments (Jones et al., 2006).

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Companies need to be aware of possible threats and identify their opportunities in order to remain successful in doing business in an international and highly competitive environment (Manzella 1999).

“Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress” – Herbert Hoover. The environments that today’s firms operate in are not static. The competitive environment they are operating in is constantly changing due to the entry or exit of competitors, changing technology and the demands of consumers. In order to maintain their market share and profitability, firms must continually assess and evaluate their competitive environment. Evaluating the various market forces firms’ face, and their effect on the competitive market ensures that an organization retains a proactive stance to the competitive environment. Instead of just accepting the status quo, organizations that actively examine and analyze their environment can then make choices and develop strategies that take advantage of the competitive situation or affect it to the firm’s benefit. This proactive stance to the market allows organizations to create value and position themselves for long term success. Firms that do not remain proactive and continually scan the competitive environment run the risk of being blindsided by innovation in the environment or significant changes undertaken by the competition.

Building a Secure Organization John Mallery BKD, LLP Chapter 1 It seems logical that any business, whether a commercial enterprise or a not-for-profit business, would understand that building a secure organization is important to longterm success. When a business implements and maintains a strong security posture, it can take advantage of numerous benefits. An organization that can demonstrate an infrastructure protected by robust security mechanisms can potentially see a reduction in insurance premiums being paid. A secure organization can use its security program as a marketing tool, demonstrating to clients that it values their business so much that it takes a very aggressive stance on protecting their information.

In order to minimize security threats and establish policies to protect a business, the owners or I/S specialists need to recognize the threats that could potentially happen to their business. Some common security threats include viruses, which could rewrite code creating the software program to be unusable or destroying the data as a whole. Viruses can spread quickly and many are not caught until damage is already created. In order to mitigate these risks, there must be a security plan in place. This could include an antivirus software, or a firewall. A firewall is a “hardware security device that is installed between a computer network and the internet. It acts like a web server, routing traffic, but also blocks external users from

This article focuses on strategic analysis and strategic development of today’s dynamic, competitive business environment for companies.

Did you know that all the companies in America have something in common? They are all operating in an environment of forces that create both threats and opportunities for their businesses. These environmental forces, which make up something known as the "macroenvironment", include: demographic, economic, natural, technology, political and cultural. Since the macroenvironment is generally uncontrollable, businesses often must find ways to adapt to the constant changes. For example, over the past few years, the auto industry has been affected tremendously by changes in the technology, natural, and political environments and therefore forced to change their marketing strategies.

The business environment is changing rapidly and everybody wants a piece of the pie. Further, companies are fiercely competing for the greater piece of the pie by expanding aggressively beyond their current geographies, exploring virgin and new markets, forming

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The contemporaneous business community is extremely challenging and dynamic and the managerial teams in the organizations are forced to respond to a wide array of threats. Some of the new challenges for instance include the shifting demands of the customers, the increasing domestic and global competition or the advancement of technology. All of these challenges are common to the entire business community and each economic agent has to respond to them in the best possible manner.

In current, key point of business management is adaptation. “Being able to adapt quickly to new ideas, industries and technologies is something every business owner needs to learn to do to help their business thrive.” (Why You Must Adapt or Watch Your Business Die.) All organizations have to adapt to society, and the organizations have to have high performance on competition. However, the business world is quick changing every day. One key that help the organizations avoid risk successfully is the ability to understand the complexities of the organization’s targets, for example, customers, prospects and partners. Consequently, executives of the organizations have to create policy that can make vantage on competition, and

(1) BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS – This implication represents the importance of the company’s general and competitive environment. Angelo needs a good business strategy. A strategic plan is the company’s plan for how it will match its internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats in order to maintain a competitive advantage (Dessler, 2012). Angelo’s early attempts showed the pitfalls in rushing and making assumptions about replicating a viable business unit. Fortunately, Angelo has realized his lack

In today’s global business competition, every business vertical is facing the need of having an integrated business strategy approach. Unlike the earlier days, where the business is driven by the products, today the business is driven by the consumers. Technological advancements, changing lifestyle, economic development, awareness about the products and services and there could be many other such attributes that are factoring to the changing trends of the organization. (Jain, 2013)