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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.
Introduction
Nowadays means of information and communication technologies represent a considerable advantage for anyone who can use them properly. Information society gradually changes business, public administration as well as each individual's life. This trend is evident also in a classic, and in many ways relatively conservative branch, such as agriculture (Simek et al., 2008). Therefore it is also necessary to know how to protect and secure them properly. The term information security is often used in the relation to the information provided. Information security can be defined as the protection of information and its critical elements, including the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit that information (Whitman and Mattord, 2012). Following recent developments affecting the information security threat landscape, information security has become a complex managerial issue (Dor and Elovici, 2016). In business, but also in the overall economy we use information that can be regarded as an asset and it is therefore necessary to process and protect them. Assets ("asset") IS / ICT include the technologies, applications, data, and also people. Examples of the assets are hardware, software tools, data that the informatics uses and processes. It also includes the standardized and formalized processes and knowledge included in the informatics, as well as individuals such as operational staff, managers of individual applications, means of communication and other employees of the Department oflnformatics (Gála et al., 2006).
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