Fearing Network Security in IT Offshoring
IT security and data management has always been the top most concern of companies that consider outsourcing of jobs to offshore companies. While offshoring has all the ingredients to a successful business plan, it does pose a threat to the security of a company’s information some analysts feel. Their arguments against safety of data revolve around poor infrastructure, malicious employees, and other unknown fears.
However, most analysts do agree that risks of data crashes, information leaks and security leaks can happen right within the company, if it were to happen. Statistically, the risks are the same as they would be if a company hired someone and made them to work in a cubicle in its own office. Internet sort of blurs the borders way beyond we can imagine.
Most of us take our online life for granted and fail to realize that much of the information that we see online may not be from the country that we currently are in. when such is the case, fears of risk are mostly psychological, which can be overcome with experience and facts. Companies that have taken a plunge into offshoring usually don’t step back as security risks are hypothetically the same as they would be if they didn’t offshore. Amplitude Research, a Boca Raton based organization and VanDyke Software drew respondents form a sample of 35 employees in corporate IT.
The research sample included CIOs and CTOs who were in managerial posts having to deal with network and system security on an everyday basis. Steve Birnkrant, CEO of Amplitude Research revealed that these individuals in the sample were reflective of the most uniquely knowledgeable professionals who would be able to judge potential network security risks. The results were quite predictable. 36% of the respondents said offshoring had a negative impact on network security, while another 36% felt it had a positive impact.
The remaining group revealed that they did not notice any risks whatsoever. It is also interesting to note that 24% of respondents had replied positively in 2009, and 50% had reported negatively about offshoring industry’s effect on network security. The positive responses have increased, where as the negative responses have decreased, which also reflects a changing attitude towards risks in offshoring. Dramatically, fears have reduced in the last few years, and more companies are willing to take that plunge into IT offshoring.
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