Introduction

The ODS Company is the member of the SSZ (The Constructions of Ways and Railways) group and part of the EUROVIA company. It is the number one in the Moravian-Silesian region in the area of road, highway and bridge construction. Recently, the company has been largely participating in the construction of the highway system in the Czech Republic, especially in the construction of the first sections of the North-Moravian highway D 47. The ODS has about 600 employees and its turnover in the year of 2006 exceeded 2.5 billion CZK.

Situational analysis

The ODS-DSO company works with many sensitive data, especially with company's confidential materials, its own know-how, economic results, data of sub-suppliers and customers, contracts etc. The company was also awarded confirmation on the sensitive data protection up to the level rated: restricted by the National Security Authority (NBÚ). Information security is thus the main aim of the ODS-DSO.For the work outside the office, laptops are mainly used and the USB memory stick is used for the actual data transmission. It was found out that the risk of misuse when these computers or portable media are stolen was high. The same risk was also attributed to management computers and some of the company's departments.

Solution proposal

Within the scope of the company's policy, i.e. long-term improvement of processes and quality management, assuring of the process of securing data information forms an inseparable part. The ODS-DSO company is fully aware of careful security of all saved data, and that is why the solution of internal data security with the help of the Safetica Enterprise security software deployment was proposed. The software was deployed on the computers of management at all levels, board of directors, economic department, manpower and others.

Benefits

The solution enabled the ODS company to:

• Extend and improve the information security policy
• Secure all sensitive documents against misuse in case of theft or unauthorized access
• Work safely on company's projects at home with the help of secured portable media
• Extend the existing system of backup with safe backups of protected data of users

Everyone certainly knows that, "If something does not happen, there is no need to deal with it". Nevertheless, as an executive manager, you take this responsibility home with you, and sometimes, it is even impossible to fall asleep with such a huge amount of confidential information. You would need to be very phlegmatic but it is not my case. It is good to have everything secured and not to think about "what if..." !

Tomáš Vítek, MSc., CEO