  Todays modern society is extremely dependent on computer based information
systems. Many of the organizations would simply not be able to function
properly without services provided by these systems, just like financing
organizations. Although interruption might decrease the efficiency of an
organization, theft or unintentional disclosure of entrusted private data could
have more serious consequences, such as legal actions as well as loss of
business due to lack of trust from potential users. This dependence on
information systems has lead to a need for securing these systems and this in
turn has created a need for knowing how secure they are. The introduction of
the information society has changed how people interact with government
agencies. Government agencies are now encouraged to uphold a 24-hour electronic
service to the citizens. The introduction of government services on the
Internet is meant to facilitate communication with agencies, decrease service
times and to lessen the amount of papers that needs to be processed. The
increased connectivity to the Internet results in a rising demand for
information security in these systems. In this article, we have discussed about
many file data breaches in the past and current history and they are going to
increase day by day as the reports by DataLossDB (Open Security Foundation)
organization, a non-profit organization in US.
