Information Security Performance Measurement

Social Insurance Organization (SIO) deals with critical customer 19s data to provide different services to customers. Maintaining confidentiality, correctness and availability of business data is top priority for SIO in order to offer quality and secure services to SIO customers.

SIO consider information as an asset which needs to be secured against ever-changing threat scenarios by improving information security strategies and controls. There is a quote 1cIf you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it". To improve the effectiveness and protection of business information, SIO set up a process for periodically identify security weakness and measure performance of information security controls/processes; SIO defined information security performance measurement metrics and supporting processes for collection and analysis of meaningful and quantifiable data to measure the security posture of SIO. Metrics were defined based on the SIO 19s requirements for management to identify areas for improvement and formulate security strategies for continuously improving the security control and processes.

Award Region
Award Year
2015
Contact address
Social Insurance Organization
Diplomatic Commercial Office Tower
Building No 1565, Road No 1722, Diplomatic Area 317
P.O.Box 5250, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
Main region