Virtual Organization in Cyber Security

What do you meant by Virtual Organization?

The term virtual organization is used to describe a network of independent firms that join together, often temporarily to produce a service or product. A virtual organization is often associated with terms as a virtual office, virtual terms, and virtual leadership. The ultimate goal of a virtual organization is to provide high-quality product services instantaneously in response to customer demand.

• It is a geographical distributed organization whose members are bounded by a long term common interest or goal.
• These organizations are distributed “business process”. These processes may be owned by one or more organizations acting in partership, for a specific project, resources are assembled to perform a business process on behalf of the project onwer, and then disassembled on the completion of the contract.
• It is an organization that has been developed not for profit but exist as a cooperate productive entity that does not have any central geographical location but exist through telecommunication tools.

Example of Virtual Organization

A small software company wants to bid for a new contract, which is beyond its scope. The company forms a VO with other similar small companies and by doing that it is suddenly able to compare with layer cooperations to gain the contract.

What are the features of Virtual Organization?

• It can be large or small long or short lived.
• VO exists for a specific purpose.
• It quickly deliver products/services that are innovative and customized.
• Membership and structure of a VO evolve over time.
• VO members can switch from one project to another.
• Dynamic VOs hava a capability to unite quickly.
• Resources, services and people that comprise a VO can be single or multi-institutional or may be homogenous or hetrogenous.
• It may follow principle of synergy ( many to one) and principle of divergence (one to many)

Advantages of VO ?

• Vo make it possible to satisfy constantly changing customer and market requirenments in a competitive manner.
• An Ability to participate in VOs increases the service range a company can offer its custromer.
• Participation in VOs increases the total number of end customers a comapnyt can reach indirectly via itd partners.
• It became possible to provide services precisly tailored to a specific customer need.

Disadvantages of VO?

• High cost
• Legal problems
• trust and respect issues
• cultural issues.