Discussion: Importance of Security Policies

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

• Explain the importance of information security policies and the role they play in ensuring sound and secure business information.

Scenario 1

Think about how you would feel if there were no rules regarding how your credit card information was stored on merchants’ Web sites. Would you purchase items from the Web? Would the Internet be as big as it is today if we had no laws or information security policies regarding data that makes up an e-commerce transaction?