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Information security strategy

Information security strategy

- [Instructor] All right, let's talk about our information security strategy. Now, when I think about strategy, I think about sports teams. Like, you know, I think about maybe watching football, and at halftime, one team is winning or the other. And when they come back from halftime, there's always some reporter on the sidelines wanting to interview the coach. And she'll say, what's your strategy? Well, we're going to run the ball and we're going to open up the passing game. We're going to try to play hard and aggressive on defense. And that's strategy. They don't get into the details, the methodology. They're not saying, you know, here's play number one, or here's play Omaha, or this play or the other. Basically that strategy is broad. It lets us know the general direction we're heading, our philosophies, our priorities, and ultimately this is the basis for our information security program. And our information security program is going to help us accomplish the strategy, but the…

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