Week 11- Tactical principles in Security Planning

Business success can only be achieved when one can prove you are different than other. This is often called the competitive strategy of the organization. The accomplishment of the strategy can be measured by determining the process: tactics. Tactics helps business to understand how the goals can be accomplished. Tactics are the countermeasures which the organization will take if the certain situations arise. In order to implement the right tactics, the objectives have to be identified and principles are the identifier of the objectives.

In order to accomplish targeted objective of the organization, security strategic plan has to be strong and successfully implemented. These plans can only be successful with proper tactics and operational plan. Resource planning, time, and technology help to achieve the tactical objectives of the security strategic planning.  Observation, timeliness, and economy are the top principles of the security management as they provide insight on sufficient information, response time and balanced cost of technology with process. These principles drive the tactical implementation of the security framework. With observation principle we can collect enough information to secure the perimeter and provide strong wall against the security attack. Timeliness determines the proper communication during the incident and what kind of tactics should be implemented during any physical or logical attack. Security is one of the costlier businesses on the organization that involves the qualified manpower, technology and advance systems. Economy principle focused on balanced resource and technology along with the cost associated with it. So, these principles help in defining the effective and efficient tactics.

Work Cited:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (n.d.). BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION PROTECTION. Retrieved October 06, 2015, from Web.mit.edu: http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/Basic.html

MIT Technology Review. (2015, August 15). The 20 Most Infamous Cyberattacks of the 21st Century (Part II). Retrieved October 06, 2015, from MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/540791/the-20-most-infamous-cyberattacks-of-the-21st-century-part-ii/