Specifying Information Security Needs for the Delivery of High Quality Security Services

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach for specifying and prioritizing information security requirements in organizations. We propose to explicitly link security requirements with the organizations' business vision, i.e. to provide business rationale for security requirements. The rationale is then used as a basis for comparing the importance of different security requirements. Furthermore we discuss how to integrate the aforementioned solution concepts into a service level management process for security services, which is an important step in IT Governance.