Information Security and Risk Analysis in Companies of Agriresort

Marcela HallováPeter PolakovičRoderik VirághIvana Slováková

DOI 10.7160/aol.2017.090104
No 1/2017, March
pp. 49-55

Hallová, M., Polakovič, P., Virágh, R. and Slováková, I. (2017) “Information Security and Risk Analysis in Companies of Agriresort", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 49 - 55. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2017.090104.

Abstract

Information and communication technologies are a tool to streamline production, and therefore they must be properly secured. The article is aimed at solving security and protection of agribusiness ICT. For a more detailed analysis of this issue there has been carried out a research. Its partial results were submitted to statistical analysis and are presented in the following article. The basic prerequisite for the implementation of any safety measures is the risk analysis when properly conducted it enables the effective implementation of safety measures and the corresponding potential threats and protected values of organization. The main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of particular forms of ICTs on protection, determination of the possible impact of the implementation of the risk and threat analysis for the enterprise.

Keywords

Information and communication technologies, information security, security policy, risks, agriculture subject.

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