Information security in public and private sector

At present the information and data has become a very important product and has achieved higher value than ever before. The age of information has brought not only new opportunities and possibilities, but also new problems – first of all information security problems. The object of this master work is information and information property. The main aim of this work is to analyse and describe the information security problem in private and public sector. Tasks, which helped to achieve the main aim, were to find out the information security necessity, to look over the main security problems in private ant public organizations, also to analyse the security means and security politics. With a help of methods of documentary and scientific literature analysis, bibliographic method and quantitative survey was established, that the security problem really exists and has to be solved as soon as possible, because of the information security incidents the organizations experience large losses and damages every day. The urgency of information and data security problem was proofed while analysing scientific literature, reviewing researches, also while doing the quantitative research and questioning the information and data security specialist, that are working in public and private organizations, about security problems in their organizations. Every organization, does not matter in which sector working, is using a lot of different information in her daily work. Depending on their activities the organizations have a various threats and risks. To ensure the high level of information security the public and private organizations needs to apply not only technical, but also organizational and physical means of security. In contemporary society the information security problem is getting more and more attention. Regardless of this fact there exist not a lot of organizations, which can claim a high information security level. After quantitative research it became clear, that the information security problem is sorer and bigger in the private (business) sector. Business organizations more often are facing different information security threats and suffering larger damages than the public organizations. The information security means in private organizations are applied not as complex and purposeful as in the public organizations. Besides that the business organizations understands not so good the importance of information resources and appraises not totally the advantage, which can give the information and data. In research were established different incidents of information security, which are happening in public and private sector. Also were identified different information security means, which are similar in both sectors. The motives why the information should be protected were different: in private sector because of financial reasons, and in the public sector because that is a requisition of law statements. The results of the research let to assert, that the law regulation of the information and data security is one of the most effective means to protect the information property