The Hindu Business Line : 'Most firms see need for info secuity policy'

EIGHTY six per cent respondents to a recently conducted survey have expressed the need for an information security policy, citing sensitivity and vulnerability of information stored in databases. The survey, conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry, sought to assess the awareness levels among organisations regarding information security needs and the level of implementation.

The survey report titled "Report on Information Security Baseline 2005" revealed that a greater percentage of companies used traditional business acumen to protect their data. According to the 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. About 11 per cent of them did not have user id password protection to protect the data.

The 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 or ids towards network protection, 60 per cent had a database administrator, 67 per cent had a system administrator, 64 per cent had an e-mail server administrator and 56 per cent had a network administrator.

Eighty nine per cent of the respondents took back-ups 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 survey. Seventy three per cent of those surveyed had invested in electronic storages for data protection and back-ups, 87 per cent in protecting the 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 or ids for network protection.

Sixty two per cent of the respondents considered financial data as a priority for protection and 40 per cent considered customer information as being important.

The survey covered around 100 companies. The respondents were mostly CEOs, and top management of both large and small organisations.

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