| People are surviving and developing in the ocean of information, it is through the information that people are distinguishing different things, recognize different things and reconstruct the world. Information security, especially in financial industry, is always the focus theme of both national leaders and common people. As the increasing advance of informationization in our country, the development of national economy and society are more and more depending on network and information system, even the information system of some industries such as bank and securities has become important basic facilities, of which the safe status is directly related to security of our country, people's interest and stability of the society. However, the information security of the financial industry in our country is cloudy. At present, our country has issued some concerned policies and administration measures, but according to experts'analysis, the lack of professional security supervision organs has resulted in ineffectiveness information system security. In recent years, a series of affairs happened in domestic and overseas indicate that if without certain security precaution ability on important information system, once suffering from big accidents or sudden matters, it will lead to irreparable economic losses. The interrelated departments in our country pay much attention to information security. The chairman of State Department informationization office Wang Yuci has pointed out that disaster restoration is an important base job for information security guarantee. In addition, to do the restoration job well, to improve prevention ability against disaster and sudden affaires have significant sense for the safety of important information system data, the continuity of business and the stability of social economy."The opinion of national information leadership team on enhancement of information security", issued in 2003, providing clearly about the security of important information system. In 2004, the State Department information office has again drawn up"manual on disaster restoration of important information system"and dispensed to the superintended departments of basic information network and important information system. However, the rapid development of informationization in financial industry has brought terrible problems behind: among all the banks realized data concentrated, 80% have constructed system disaster duplicate centers, but only about 15% have actualized business continuous administration. Lately, faults are appearing continuously in banks. In 2006, China Construction Bank had correspondence breakdown in investment account system in the chief bank and it recovered after several hours, incurring great losses to 2 million shareholders due to not being able to transferring transaction in about 70 sales departments of China Construction Bank investment securities companies. Subsequently, China UnionPay had great faults in communication network and host computer, people in most provinces could not use credit card up to 7 hours, how huge losses it caused, not having the reliable data till now. And a great deal of network bank theft affairs happened recently knocked the alarm bell for information security of network bank system.With the trend of opening and interconnection of the bank system, the category of information security was wider than that of the traditional bank system which based on the physical isolation of business system and isolation by agreement. We must review again the information safety of the bank by means of a gradually developing system platform. Financial system (bank, insurance, securities) is the critical system among 11 categories of key information foundational facilities which required by the national government to implement grade protection. Therefore, how to set up an efficient modern information security system becomes a highlighted question increasingly. |
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