Trust does not reside in integrated circuits or fibre-optic cables. Although it involves an exchange of information, trust is not reducible to information. Since communities depend on trust, and trust is determined by culture, it follows that trusted security management will look and feel different in different companies with different cultures.

The most effective companies are those based on communities of shared ethical values. The absence of clearly stated ethics also produces companies which can be very successful for a time. These have tended to have names like Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Parmalat, and BCCI.

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms, a business should enjoy sustained success. Not only that, but we can show you how this approach actually reduces the cost of doing business, with no loss of quality, standards, or reputation.

Security as an enabler of trust should be regarded increasingly as an important lubricant in an organisation. We can demonstrate how security management can deliver real, measurable, and practical economic value. Managed properly, proven ways of addressing security management opportunities can increase organisational efficiency, enabling you to produce more goods, or indeed more of whatever values you hold in high esteem. Last but not least, in environments with increasing regulatory demands, security management can help reduce transaction costs.

Security's strategic role as a trust enabler supports entire organisations. We can show you how inappropriate reductions in security or trust lead to the appearance of more intrusive, costly rule-making and regulation.

Our skills lie in helping those trusted with security management create culturally harmonised security awareness, ensuring it is considered everyone's responsibility. We see the role of your security specialists as assisting management in the creation and maintenance of a secure, trusted environment, from which additional benefits can accrue.