June 02, 2008

2008 InfoWorld CTO 25: Bud Mathaisel, Achievo

A prescient security approach helps an outsourcer move quickly to address customer intellectual property protection needs

The reason? An FBI report that showed the top five countries of concern for intellectual property theft and industrial espionage were China, India, and Russia -- three that one might expect -- but also France and the United States. "You know that old adage, 'Why do thieves rob the bank? Because that's where the money is'? Well, that's where the software development is," Mathaisel says. "The risk goes beyond China."

Mathaisel now preaches ISO 27001 to industry groups and customers, considering it to be as fundamental to well-run IT as are capability maturity models and the ITIL frameworks. Although described as a security standard, ISO 27001 is really a rigorous IT administrative management approach that covers everything from hiring through disaster recovery, he says. Applying it helps companies not just protect intellectual property but also adhere to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory requirements related to due diligence.

Galen Gruman is executive editor of InfoWorld for features and news.
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