In the recent news Infosys becomes the first private company to get CISF security. I have also been reading in yet another blog about a organization conducting mocks drills for terrorist’s attacks. It is quite interesting to see that organizations are now taking security as a prime concern. As mentioned in my previous blog about frisking of VIP’s at airports, the exception mentioned there is an age old rule that was implemented when terrorism was a not major concern.
Archive for July, 2009
CISF Security at Infosys
Jul 31
In the recent incident of Dr. APJ Kalam been frisked at the IGI airport by the staff of Continental Airlines has created some news. The Airline has also tendered an apology to Dr. Kalam for the inconvienence caused – this is as reported in the TimesofIndia daily newspaper on 22nd July 2009.
Now does that apology mean that Continental Airlines will not frisk any VIP’s in future while they board the flight..? I see a security concern here.
It just came up recently while discussing with one of my friend, the need for capturing service assets as a part of asset inventory which will be used further for risk assessment exercise.
In a normal scenario, everyone uses a template that captures assests under different cateogories, viz
- Information Asset – deals with electronic and paper based data
- Hardware Asset – includes all your hardware, cupboards, safe, etc
- Software Asset – includes all software’s used or implemented in the organization.
- Service Asset – services that a department avails from the organization
- People Asset – talks about people / employees
Now the discussion went like this: