The Organizational Security knowledge area focuses on protecting organizations from cybersecurity threats and managing risk to support the successful accomplishment of the organization’s mission. Organizations have responsibility to meet the needs of many constituencies and those needs must inform each of these knowledge units.
The Societal Securityknowledge area focuses on aspects of cybersecurity that broadly impact society as a whole for better or for worse. Cybercrime, law, ethics, policy, privacy and their relation to each other are the key concepts of this knowledge area. The threat of cybercrime across the global society is incredibly serious and growing. Laws, ethics and policies are vital to the security of corporate and government secrets and assets, as well as to the protection of individual privacy and identity.
