Annotated Bib.: IT Security Management and Business Process Automation: Challenges, Approaches, and Rewards.

[1] R. P. Tracy. It security management and business process automation: Challenges, approaches, and rewards. Information Systems Security, 16(2):114–122, 2007.

This paper focuses on security polices and how to enforce them in an organization, it makes use of the business process automation idea to enforce security polices.
The paper start of with showing the importance of including security in the business to give security priority. Then discussed the challenges in enforcing security polices. after that it explain how to make use of Business process automation (BPA) concept to enforce security polices; first by making security polices in to process requirements, and then the authors made use of the BPA concept by creating and automating a process to enforce the security requirements: Inventory, Asses, Notify, Remediate, Validate, and report.
The paper conclude that with a good security polices, a platform that support automation of security polices, and a process automation solution in place an organization can be as secure as possible.

Relation to the research in hand; will be that this paper shows the importance of including security from the beginning and that security and business need each other and should be more integrated than ever.