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Information Security Policy
high priority for companies: CII Survey
Recognizing
the sensitivity and vulnerability of information stored in databases,
86 per cent respondents, to a recently conducted survey, have expressed
the need for an information security policy. The survey conducted
by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) sought to assess the
awareness levels prevalent among organizations regarding information
security needs and the level of implementation. The survey report
titled "Report on Information Security Baseline 2005" also
revealed that 38 per cent companies do not have an information security
policy of which 7 per cent are indifferent to security policy.
The survey covered about 100 companies .The respondents were mostly
CEOs, and top management of both large and small organizations. 43
per cent of the organizations surveyed had more than 500 employees
and 38 per cent had less than 100. 26 per cent respondents belonged
to the manufacturing sector, 14 per cent to consumer goods and 42
per cent were IT/ITES companies, BPOs, ISPs, consultants, education,
insurance, construction, real estate, financial services etc. 100
per cent of the respondents used computers.
While an information security policy was high on the agenda of most
companies, the CII survey revealed that only 16 per cent of participating
companies had an assigned CSO or a CISO. 62 per cent of them had no
such post or person.
Greater percentage of companies used traditional business acumen to
protect their data. According to the CII survey, 81 per cent of the
respondents felt that their application system access mechanism was
in control and about 79 per cent of them monitored it regularly. Only
about 11 per cent of them did not have user id password protection
to protect the data.
The CII survey also revealed that 100 per cent of the respondents
used some form of anti virus, anti spam and anti worm software, 85
per cent used firewalls, ids, ips towards network protection, 60 per
cent had a Data Base Administrator, 67 per cent had a system administrator,
64 per cent had an email server administrator and 56 per cent had
a network administrator.
89 per cent of the respondents took backups regularly, 70 per cent
had a business continuity plan in place and 63 per cent had a disaster
recovery plan in place, according to the CII survey. 73 per cent of
those surveyed by CII had invested in electronic storages for data
protection and back ups, 87 per cent in protecting operating system,
75 per cent in application protection, 68 per cent in database protection,
67 per cent in communication protection, 79 per cent in firewalls,
ids, ips for network protection.
62 per cent of the respondents considered financial data as a priority
for protection and 40 per cent considered customer information as
being important.
The CII report also defines risks which were revealed by the survey.
According to the report, topping the list is the absence of a CSO/CISO
in a company. Having no CSO was an indication of absence of IT security
governance in an enterprise, reads the survey.
The CII report further identifies a great need for Information Security
Awareness Program amongst companies.
71 percent of the respondents to the CII survey had no security process
certification, a high risk area.
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India, Japan sign pacts for collaboration in ICT sector
India and Japan have agreed to set up a joint task-force to identify
and explore the possibility of joint ventures and stand-alone projects
in the areas of broadband, mobile communication, e-governance, information
security, research and development and ubiquitous computing. The two
sides have also signed three memoranda of understanding for enhancing
cooperation in the information communication technology (ICT) sector.
The National Institute of Information and Communication Technology
of Japan has signed the MoUs with C-DAC, C-DoT and IIT (Guwahati).
The MoU and the agreement to set up the task-force was signed by Mr
Dayanidhi Maran, Minister for Communication and IT, and Mr Taro Aso,
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, during the
first India-Japan ICT Ministerial Forum . Over 100 top Japanese executives
from companies including NTT, NEC, Matsushita, OKI and Kyocera were
part of the deliberations.
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Business intelligence
software market up
The size of Business Intelligence
software market in India has grown to 10.55 million US
dollars with SAS leading the pack, cornering a share of
23 per cent in 2004, according to research firm IDC. IDC
said the business intelligence software market was growing
at compound annual growth rate of 27.09 per cent. SAS
India has a strong customer base in India with over 150
installations in the country including companies like
Novartis, Standard Chartered Bank, Hindustan Lever Ltd,
HDFC Bank, Reserve Bank of India.
According to IDC, the banking, financial services and
insurance dominate the market spends on BI software with
35 per cent of total spend in the country. The telecom
sector (21 per cent), manufacturing sector (15 per cent)
and services industry (10 per cent), including the ITES
sector, are other key spenders on business intelligence
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