Cyber Security Governance and Management

The event of cyber security in important the infrastructure has generated the interest and concern of power utilities, authorities, regulatory corporations and buyers apart from educational and study establishments. If on the one hand it is the extraordinary vulnerability of cyberspace, which increases the risk of attacks in the organizational environment, then, then, the main research for alternatives to governance and manipulation of these critical systems is still very early. It looks at the objectives of building a theoretical-empirical model of cyber security governance and management and trying it out on the aspect of instructive experts and professionals around electricity. Using the Delphi approach and fact techniques for verification, an evaluation tool is advanced based primarily on each construct: governance and control; and 9 dimensions with their respective variables that allow for an assessment of the state of affairs of Brazilian power utilities relating to the security of their cyberspace. The contribution of the object reaches the fronts: a conceptual and an empirical one as it expands and organizes information about the roughly factors governing and controlling cyberspace; And as a methodology it proposes to measure dimensions in power utilities.