Shanghai Senior Role Information Technology: How do you view the security issues of IT outsourcing?

Although IT outsourcing can reduce costs and improve service quality, it also faces many risks. The first is the risk of information security. Every enterprise has trade secrets. After outsourcing the construction, operation and maintenance of IT systems, especially core information systems, to IT service providers, how to ensure that the enterprise's trade secret documents are not leaked is a key consideration. the elements of. Therefore, CIOs need to be both cautious and proactive in risk prevention when outsourcing.

The information security risk in IT outsourcing is also one of the reasons why many CIOs are slow to take the step of outsourcing. However, we cannot give up the opportunity to use outsourcing to reduce the burden of IT because of choking.

Here are some suggestions for avoiding the risks of IT outsourcing:

1. Reduce outsourcing of core business. According to the survey, 80% of corporate information leakage comes from within the company, such as from employees who are dissatisfied with the company or leadership. Before a company decides to outsource IT, it must be certain that the outsourced part contains a smaller amount of company data. For example, CIO Ms. Chen Mei said they outsourced the company's computer repair business. The workload of this part of the business is relatively large and contains less information. Therefore, whether outsourcing will leak company information depends on the business content of the outsourcing.

2. Develop specifications for the duration of outsourced work, such as not bringing storage equipment into the workplace, etc.

3. Regulatory constraints, check whether outsourcing companies comply with data privacy laws and special industry regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPPA, ISO20007, etc.

4. Technical assurance, check whether the outsourcing supplier has the technical conditions to ensure information security.

5. At the beginning of choosing an outsourcing supplier, a company should first check the confidentiality policy of the outsourcing supplier, and specify the confidentiality agreement and the responsibility for information leakage in the outsourcing contract.

The information security assurance of IT outsourcing is being recognized by more and more companies and CIOs. A number of survey data also attest to the recognition of outsourcing security: the percentage of people who believe that IT outsourcing has a positive impact on security is increasing year by year.

In addition, it is also crucial to choose a good IT outsourcing team. In principle, if a network administrator has problems in information security, or it is in addition to the problem itself, once it is gone, the enterprise is helpless in this regard. If it is a team, then There are better guarantees in terms of prevention and handling and accountability after the event. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the security issues of IT outsourcing, and it is more reliable to do a good job of security than to recruit network administrators.

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