Business process-based valuation of IT-security

Growing business integration raises the need for secure business processes as security problems can affect the profit and the reputation of a company. However, decisions regarding a reasonable level of security in a business environment are often made in a value-neutral way.This paper presents a framework for the valuation of cost-benefit of various security levels with business processes. The framework can be used for planning security levels in software development and allows further continuous monitoring and improvement of cost-benefit of security measures along with operative business processes.