Security Level Management (SLM) is the strategic management system that allows exact: with objectives, measures and controls to be derived from operations in a management control loop. It is related to the disciplines of Security and Security Event management (SIEM), which the analysts Gartner summarise in their Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management. SLM can be categorised under the strategic panoply of IT governance, which, via suitable organisation structures and processes, ensures that IT supports corporate strategy and objectives.