Monday, August 20, 2007

What about IT risks?


We speak a lot about risks in general but what about IT Risks? At our IT era where almost all our appliances are based on electronic and computer systems, we speak a lot about natural and environmental disasters, human made disasters but could you imagine what could be an IT disaster where most of our corporate data are saved?

We know that the missions of first priority of antiviruses systems companies are to eradicate such events before they occur but cyber-terrorism could have the worst effects on knowledge management, documents, corporate data, corporate history...

Nowadays, we all want to get rid of print documents but what do humans thought about the 'What If'?

Most of our companies take care of saving files and data on servers on a daily basis but what are the main risks for highly confidential documents? Some thefts occur in the culture field (I think about paintings in particular), but what are the main insurance terms in the case of highly confidential electronic documents? Can 'reinsurance' be applied in this case? Are 'rules' sufficient to prevent from such thefts?


Didier, la NewsRe Team

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But Banks seems to be very interested in taht matters. Just have a look at this link:

http://www.caisse-epargne.fr/asp/modele2.aspx?np=page_faq_webcoffre&nv=20070723151337

'Le Web Coffre' for all kind of numeric documents to save in a cool dry place ;-)