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Today’s Action is Better than Tomorrow’s Cure - Evaluating Information Security at a Premier Indian Business School

Today’s Action is Better than Tomorrow’s Cure - Evaluating Information Security at a Premier Indian Business School

Saini Das, Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Bharat Bhasker
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 15 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 23
ISSN: 1548-7717|EISSN: 1548-7725|EISBN13: 9781466634329|DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2013070101
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Das, Saini, et al. "Today’s Action is Better than Tomorrow’s Cure - Evaluating Information Security at a Premier Indian Business School." JCIT vol.15, no.3 2013: pp.1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2013070101

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Das, S., Mukhopadhyay, A., & Bhasker, B. (2013). Today’s Action is Better than Tomorrow’s Cure - Evaluating Information Security at a Premier Indian Business School. Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), 15(3), 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2013070101

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Das, Saini, Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, and Bharat Bhasker. "Today’s Action is Better than Tomorrow’s Cure - Evaluating Information Security at a Premier Indian Business School," Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT) 15, no.3: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2013070101

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Abstract

Information Security breaches today affect a large number of organizations including universities, globally. They pose an immense threat to the C-I-A (confidentiality, integrity and availability) of information. Hence, it is important to have proper Information Security Management System (ISMS) designed in accordance with industry adopted standards for risk management. The current case explores the IT infrastructure at a premier Indian business school where internet support is required round the clock. The entire ISMS framework of the organization, including security policy, security budget and network components, is described. Though the security infrastructure apparently seemed to be adequate, a spate of hacking attacks targeted at the SMTP server attempted to cripple the extremely crucial email services for the period of the attack by generating spam. The primary security challenges facing the organization including nature and appropriateness of ISMS, adequacy of the security policy, budget allocation for IT security, etc., are left open for discussion. Mr. Rajesh Ghosh1, the Chairman, Computer Advisory Committee (CAC) at the ABC Institute of Management, Lucknow (AIML)1 looked at the dark brown, wooden floor of his office, immersed in thought about the latest hacking attempts on the Institute’s network. There was a knock on his partially open office door. Mr. Deepak Jha, the Computer Centre (CC) manager stood at the door with a pile of documents in his hand, smiled and said “It is not that bad after all. Our Computer Centre employees are trying their best to handle the attack and the situation will soon be under control.” Mr. Ghosh however, was more worried than relieved. It was the computer centre’s responsibility to provide safe and secure round the clock internet facility to the entire AIML community and it had always lived up to the expectations since its inception. However, of late there have been a few minor phishing attempts on the AIML network. Though all of them had been nipped in the bud, the current spate of hacking attacks on the AIML Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server had attempted to cripple the email services of the institute for a considerable period by generating spam. Mr. Ghosh wanted to ensure that the IT infrastructure at AIML was perfect and there were no loopholes in the network. As he prepared for his meeting with the CAC members, he pondered over the challenges related to the CC operations and services.

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