Global Sourcing of IT Services and Information Security: Prudence before Playing

This paper calls for awareness of the risks in global sourcing of IT and IT-enabled services. It calls for appropriate assessment and mitigation of these risks. The authors identify ways in which global sourcing (often called offshoring) increases information security exposures and strategies for ma...

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Published inCommunications of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 20; p. 50
Main Authors Goodman, Seymour E., Ramer, Rob
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta Association for Information Systems 2007
Subjects
Security
Security management
Sourcing
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Summary:This paper calls for awareness of the risks in global sourcing of IT and IT-enabled services. It calls for appropriate assessment and mitigation of these risks. The authors identify ways in which global sourcing (often called offshoring) increases information security exposures and strategies for managing such risks.
ISSN:1529-3181
1529-3181
DOI:10.17705/1CAIS.02050