From the standpoint of a company, information has value and is therefore an asset. It therefore needs to be protected just like any other corporate asset, and because information must be protected, the infrastructure that supports information must also be protected.

This infrastructure includes all the networks, systems, and functions that allow an organization to manage and control its information assets.

The big questions are how and why do you protect your information assets?

Information needs to be protected because modern organizations are faced with a wide range of security threats.

These threats include everything from human error and equipment failure to theft, fraud, vandalism, sabotage, fire, flood, and even terrorism. And because most modern organizations operate in a complex, interconnected, technological world, information is also vulnerable to an entirely new set of high-tech threats and attacks. Because of their interconnectedness, modern organizations are also threatened by computer hackers, malicious code, and denial of service attacks.