• DocumentCode
    892984
  • Title

    Nonsecurity Considerations in Security Decisions

  • Author

    Schneier, Bruce

  • Author_Institution
    BT Counterpane
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    88
  • Lastpage
    88
  • Abstract
    Security decisions are generally made for nonsecurity reasons. For security professionals and technologists, this can be a hard lesson. We like to think that security is vitally important. But anyone who has tried to convince the sales VP to give up her department´s Blackberries knows security is often viewed as a minor consideration in a larger decision.
  • Keywords
    Computer security; Environmental economics; Ethics; Law; Legal factors; Marketing and sales; Privacy; Bruce Schneier; countermeasure; security; security decision; trade-offs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2007.68
  • Filename
    4218562