DEVELOPING A MODEL AND A TOOL TO MANAGE THE INFORMATION SECURITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

Luís Enrique Sánchez, Daniel Villafranca, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Mario Piattini

2007

Abstract

The maturity and security management systems are essential in order to guarantee the continuity and stability of the companies in the current market situation. However, this requires that enterprises know in every moment their security maturity level and to what extend their information security system must evolve. In small and medium-sized enterprises, the application of security standards has an additional problem, which is the fact that they do not have enough resources to carry out an appropriate management. This security management system must have highly reduced costs for its implementation and maintenance in small and medium-sized enterprises (from here on refered to as SMEs) to be feasible. In this paper, we will put forward our proposal of a maturity model for security management in SMEs and we will briefly analyse other models that exist in the market. This approach is being directly applied to real cases, thus obtaining a constant improvement in its application.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Enrique Sánchez L., Villafranca D., Fernández-Medina E. and Piattini M. (2007). DEVELOPING A MODEL AND A TOOL TO MANAGE THE INFORMATION SECURITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-12-8, pages 355-362. DOI: 10.5220/0002122003550362

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt07,
author={Luís Enrique Sánchez and Daniel Villafranca and Eduardo Fernández-Medina and Mario Piattini},
title={DEVELOPING A MODEL AND A TOOL TO MANAGE THE INFORMATION SECURITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={355-362},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002122003550362},
isbn={978-989-8111-12-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2007)
TI - DEVELOPING A MODEL AND A TOOL TO MANAGE THE INFORMATION SECURITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
SN - 978-989-8111-12-8
AU - Enrique Sánchez L.
AU - Villafranca D.
AU - Fernández-Medina E.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2007
SP - 355
EP - 362
DO - 10.5220/0002122003550362