Bodyguard and Security / 1st Issue

10 years of IBSSA – official publication
The security of information
The Hungarian IT Security Section of IBSSA was
established in late 2000. The Board of IBSSA requested
the Electronics Directorate of the Electronic, Logistical
and Property Management Inc. of the Ministry of
Defense (HM EI Inc.) to establish and manage the activities
of the organization. HM EI Inc. is a member of
IBSSA.
The new Section is expected to meet the following tasks:
- creation of a forum, to provide IBSSA members with
an opportunity to get information regarding the security
of IT operations and the variety of the available
products and normative standards,
- provision of training, consulting and exchange of
experiences, in order to facilitate implementation of
the objectives,
- in agreement with the Board of IBSSA, coordination
of the Section’s international activities.
The Hungarian IT Security Section of IBSSA has considered
the following issues a part of its tasks:
- in order to achieve its goals, the generally accepted
international set of IT security requirements should,
primarily, be naturalized and made accessible in the
form of a national database or by other ways and
means,
- a database should be created to disseminate the variety
of IT security related norms, standards and products
already available in the domestic and international
market environment and considered by the
Section a knowledge of importance and worthy of
attention,
- methodologies should be recommended to support IT
security related tests, both general ones and others tailored
to members of IBSSA,
- organizational units tailored to the training and consultancy
systems to be organized by the Hungarian IT
Security Section of IBSSA should be established.
These units shall receive professional support needed
to implement their respective mission by means of
relying on marketing opportunities provided to information
experts and security companies,
- the Board of IBSSA should facilitate international
coordination of the respective activities.
Mrs. Nagy Dr. Maria SZILVÁSI, director of HM EI
Inc.’s Electronics Directorate chairs the IT Security
Section of IBSSA.
During the Section’s establishment, the organizers
made efforts to provide, in addition to members of
IBSSA, also the experts of HM EI Inc. with an opportunity
to contribute to the implementation of the organization’s
objectives. An Information Protection and
Security Division set up within the organization of HM
EI Inc.’s Electronics Directorate has carried out practical
tasks and manufacturing activities, in addition to performing
theoretical/scientific research. The Division’s
experts of great attainments and rich professional experience
render assistance to the Section in the following
fields and aspects:
- the Section should be able to offer efficient support to
members of IBSSA regarding information technology
and other issues related to security of information,
- presentations be held under the Section’s auspices on
issues related to security of information and similar
subjects.
Aspiration of this sort is reflected in the Rules of
Organization and Operations of the Hungarian IT Security
Section of IBSSA. This set of rules permits that both
individuals and companies and interest groups assume
membership in the Section.
Since the date of its foundation, both Miklós
SZALAY, CEO of HM EI Inc. and the Chamber of
Personal and Property Protection Agencies and Private
Detectives have taken great interest in observing the Section’s
activities. The management of the Hungarian
Division of IBSSA coordinates the Section’s international
activities. IBSSA decided to put the Section and its
operations on its web-site.
According to a goal set by the Presidium of the
Section, IBSSA members should join in increasing numbers,
in order to improve the efficiency of their activities,
using the information acquired as a result of joint efforts.
The management of the Section has recognized the
importance of expanding the scope of the Section’s activities
because the classical term of IT security covers, in
the current situation, a definition which is narrower
than the definition of security of information. The
Management System of Information Security (based on
the respective ISO standard) gave a new impulse to such
expansion aspirations.
The Section organizes regular (monthly) meetings
and presentations for the IBSSA members on subjects
like security of information and logistical information.
Also, the concept of digital signature and its ex-pected
introduction in Hungary was discussed at length. The
audience listened with much enthusiasm to presentations
concerning the world web and opportunities for
the use of various information services.
The Electronic Directorate of HM EI Inc. holds conferences
and presentations several times a year. Those
events have been supplemented by exhibitions arranged
to demonstrate various explanatory exhibits.
The conference held during the days of
“SECUREX” (International Trade Exhibition of Labor
Safety and Security Protection) has become a traditional
event where most of the presentations discuss the
subject of security of information. Also the members of
the Section participate in such events and hold presen-
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