How to make the IT Information Security team more proactive and productive?

Recently Panda security has published the survey results of 2013 regarding the breaches of IT Security. According to the survey Malware creation has hit a new high with the total of 30 million malicious and dangerous strains in circulation. Isn’t it unbelievable? News like this hits newspaper every day that poses great challenge to IT Information Security Industry. The time has come that every IT Professional gears himself/ herself to face these challenges and design and implement security transformation programs based on the magnitude of the company. They should be enabled with effective disaster recovery plans to revive the lost data. To face these challenges the IT Information Security Team should be technically savvy and should know how to build, manage and lead a team effectively.

When an IT Information Security team is built care should be taken to choose members whose roles are equally important. No role is big or small. Each and every member should be pro active and skilled enough to come out with the right solutions. Care should be taken to choose team members who have diverse skills. The strength and weakness of every team member should be gauged, harnessed and optimized. Let us now discuss how each member can be named andwhat responsibilities should be given to them based on their caliber.