Understanding the business can get you promoted
Security of systems is only 25 per cent of the job

Information security professionals must embrace business knowledge if they hope to climb a few rungs higher on the corporate ladder, according to experts in the industry.

These days, the average medium-to-large enterprise experiences data growth rates of 50 per cent per year. This means that every two years, the amount of information that companies need to secure and manage doubles, says John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec. During his keynote at Symantec Vision, the company's annual user conference, held June 10-12 in Las Vegas, Thompson spoke about the security implications of the evolving - and increasingly mobile - data landscape.

Video: Portable licensing: The industy weighs in on the issue

Last year the Private Security and Investigative Services Act (PSISA) came into effect in Ontario. The new law requires security industry workers to be licensed, including some that were not licensed before.

Those using contract security services have also been watching with a careful eye to see how the changes, such as portable licensing, will impact them.

To see how the industry is coping with all the change, in mid-May Canadian Security gathered it's editorial advisory board together along with some experts in the area of training and regulation to see how the changes are taking shape. View a excerpt from the discussion here.

To read the entire article, see the June/July issue of Canadian Security.