Currently many business organizations are focused on technology ‘security’, and the procedures that are in place to secure and protect people, data, systems, facilities, assets and property – all of which tie closely to government mandates such as HIPAA, SOX and GLB. Security planning also ties closely to business continuity planning – the plan that provides security to your shareholders, employees, and customers. Your business continuity plan helps to ensure that your organization has the ability to continue to function and stay in business during or after a catastrophe or disaster.

A key responsibility of a CSO is to help determine the areas of weakness within an organization and to correct those weaknesses, which if compromised, can impact the ability of the company to continue essential functions and mission-critical services.

In that today’s world is data-centric and information driven, the ultimate role and challenge of the CSO is to anticipate disaster scenarios – they must create check-points and redundancies to maintain and safeguard systems and facilities, and they must develop processes and security measures that protect people, data, and both client and corporate assets and property.

In the 1990s the government, as a means of demanding corporate accountability, passed Acts such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley and GLB, that require organizations to undergo annual compliance audits to help to ensure that such safeguards are in place.

Putting such procedures and processes in place require specific knowledge and expertise, and many smaller organizations seek out that CSO expertise on a ‘part-time, contract, or on-demand basis’, since employing these resources full-time would be cost-prohibitive.

It should also be noted that since 9/11, many organizations, especially international organizations and government institutions, will not conduct business or trade information with other organizations that cannot prove voluntary or mandated compliance to generally accepted security guidelines and principles such as ISO 17799 or SAS70, both of which can also be used to support SOX and GLB compliance.

Currently there are many comprehensive CSO or CSO Managed Services programs, which provide peace of mind to any company seeking security certification or compliance, seeking to secure their IT infrastructure and information, or seeking to develop a solid business continuity plan that will help guarantee their ability to continue operations during or after a breach or disaster.

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The term on-demand can have a couple of meanings when referring to hiring. One meaning is the ability to find employees or employment as needed from various hiring sources. Another way on-demand is used is to refer to pay as you go employment. This can apply senior management, business analysts, or project managers.

In this article we will focus on the benefits of senior managements teams and on demand hiring. Time after time business are successful due to a great senior management team. This is what solid organizations are mostly built on. In today’s business most organizations have a Certified Executive Officer (CEO), Certified Information Officer (CIO), Chief Operations Officer (COO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), Chief Security Officer (CSO) / Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This upper management team controls every aspect of a company and is tasked with driving strategic direction of Americas large companies.

With small and medium business (SMB) needing the same expertise with less budget and less employees this presents a challenge. On demand hiring, mainly through management staffing services, can fill this senior management void for SMB companies at a budget which makes sense. In present day it is common place to outsource jobs or positions which can make sense from both an economic and business sense stance. Many great management firms hire senior management team members specific to their expertise. This is a great option to guide organizations when critical and costly decisions are about to be made. This holds doubly true when those important decisions are related to technology. On demand senior management consultants can help steer your company’s senior management advisors.

Benefits of On Demand Senior Management Staffing:

- Ability to have a fixed monthly cost for staffing. Normally management firms allow long and short term staffing options for individuals and complete management teams.
- Senior professionals available at will. This is a great benefit due to the difficulty to find the right fit fast.
- Avoid costly mistakes by hiring experience.
- Experience lower development costs.
- Reduce company stress and provide strong leadership.
- Improve ROI

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