What are “best business practices,” and how can their adoptation enhance the security posture of Art and its critical infrastructures?
“Best practices” are those generally accepted protocols, procedures, and practices that are voluntarily implemented, because they promote the continuity of business or reliability of service expected by the customer. “Best practices” are pursued, in part, to avoid the often heavy costs associated with industry regulation, but mainly because they are consistent with sound business principles and more readily effect in a positive manner the corporate bottom line; that is, profitability. While not cost-free, “best practices” are analogous to low-cost, prophylactic measures often employed by the practitioners of preventative medicine and therefore a way to make available more present-day, scarce funding for the likely complex and costly solutions demanded by tomorrow’s unforeseen problems. Again, the medical analogy would be a change in diet today to avoid costly heart by-pass surgery tomorrow. In the near term, one of the ways to quickly and effectively achieve a much higher level of prot
