Information Assurance for Records Managers

Conference 2010 S03 - Monday 10.30am

My presentation to the RMS will link Information Assurance to Records Management.

‘The term information assurance is used to describe confidence in the processes of information risk management. Effective IA should ensure appropriate levels of availability, integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation and authentication of information and information systems. This confidence is particularly important in the present environment, which is subject to unprecedented levels of malicious activity with intent to compromise UK information and information systems’. (taken from the National IA Strategy: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ogcio/isa/publications/ia_strategy.aspx (accessed 29/12/09). I need not define Records Management!

Records Managers are articulate, bright people, who can develop and grow because their skills are transferable; my presentation is aimed to demonstrate this.

My presentation is aimed at taking your from understanding why information assurance matters, a short trip through basic information security principles, to how a records manager can contribute, or, as I do, lead this process. I shall also take a more in-depth look at the Information Assurance Maturity Model (IAMM) – incorporating analysis of delivery partners and 3rd party suppliers and the Security Policy Framework (SPF).

Paul Dodgson, Driving Standards Agency

I have been involved in Records Management as long as I care to remember – some 30 years. My life has been surrounded by creating access and filing solutions. A previous Vice-Chairman of the RMS, I hold the role of... more...

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