In the 21th century, increasing number of business uses computers in the daily business operation. Figure 1 shows that businesses become rely more and more on computers over the years. According to 2009 HK Annual Survey on Information Technology Usage and Penetration in the Business Sector, the usage of PC increased which is positively proportion with the size of companies. Around 99.4% of the large business had used PCs, 89.9% for medium business and 59.8% for small business. The percentage of establishments having Internet connection was 85.6% of medium business and 57.0% of small business respectively. This reflected that Internet had become an important means of communication in most of the establishments. The advent of the IT revolution has bought the ability to gather, store, process and transfer large quantities of information over the internet and intranet. Unfortunately, this resulted a new challenges faced by businesses which is the protection of information. Information Security becomes hot issue, as it is the key ingredient that driving business, most businesses cannot function if this ingredient is not available or is unreliable. Availability, integrity and confidentiality of information are paramount concerns today. (Recent Information Security Development in Hong Kong, Hon Keung YAU)
Last date updated on September, 2024
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