Resource Page: Cost of Information Assurance

"How Much is Enough?"

December 2002 Mfg.Trust Feature Story

Resources

(^top) Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR) 5.0  (8 Aug 2002). http://www.supply-chain.org/

Business Continuity Planning
NCMS Mfg.Trust Special Report - July 2002

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Cost of
Information Assurance
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Information will continue to be the most valuable asset in many industries in the foreseeable future.  Therefore to survive and succeed, manufacturers must place high importance on protecting this valuable asset even as they seek to leverage it to create higher value through collaboration.  Increasing, information-driven collaboration is a dominant trend for commerce. Attaining and maintaining requisite levels of Information Assurance will become a common business process, and a basic necessity for competitive performance, similar to the evolution of Quality into a differentiator and even a basic expectation.