Non-profit Organizations' Need to Address Security for Effective Government Contacting

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of information security for small to mid-size non-profit organizations to prevent data breaches, outages, and disasters, emphasizing security planning, policies, and employee training.

Contribution

It highlights security challenges faced by non-profit organizations and proposes methods for integrating security measures into their infrastructure within resource constraints.

Findings

Security risks are increasing for non-profits.

Effective security requires comprehensive planning and training.

Resource limitations impact security implementation.

Abstract

The need for information security within small to mid-size companies is increasing. The risks of information security breach, data loss, and disaster are growing. The impact of IT outages and issues on the company are unacceptable to any size business and their clients. There are many ways to address the security for IT departments. The need to address risks of attacks as well as disasters is important to the IT security policies and procedures. The IT departments of small to medium companies have to address these security concerns within their budgets and other limited resources.Security planning, design, and employee training that is needed requires input and agreement from all levels of the company and management. This paper will discuss security needs and methods to implement them into a corporate infrastructure.