Data Management and Organizational Resilience: Leadership Roles
Posted on Tue, Sep 20, 2011
This is the fourth article in a series entitled: Data Management and Organizational Resilience. ASG is offering a series of blogs as well as a white paper that aggregates these blogs into one download, with the intent to make the case for data management and its correlation to the Organizational Resilience Management function.
An endeavor of this nature needs to have firm leadership from the top of the 
organizational structure. There should be one person with absolute decision making authority who is a member of the Enterprise Leadership Team that is directly responsible for this process and keeps the Enterprise Leadership team informed. In many organizations this position is known as a Chief Security Officer. This is a position on the institutional leadership team similar in stature to a Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operations Officer. The CSO should be a full partner in the governance infrastructure of the organization. If a comprehensive assessment of any areas of risk supports the need for a function specific security role, the assignment of high accountability better insures an integrated security strategy, with less duplication of effort and an overall or cost.
To learn more download the full white paper. In the next article we will be drilling down on the definition and analysis.