The Necessity and Functionality of Information Management Safety: A Case Analysis in Turkey Perspective

Today, the use of information is gradually increasing in private sector and public sector. Besides that the importance of information increases, keeping and storing it in a safe way also appeared as an important need. Also, transferring it from one place to another place became inevitable need. This dependency to information made a current issue the need of keeping information. The attacks to information, its destroying, its cleaning, and being damaging of its confidentiality causes informational infrastructure to fall into decay and this, together with it, also leads the things to go wrong. Thus, the safety of information system gradually becomes more important. However, in information age, taking information under control gradually becomes difficult. Making the information flow more safe, from now on, has become a policy of governments. On this purpose, Information Safety Management System was developed. Informational Safety Management System is a systematic approach adopted for being able to manage the sensitive information of institute. The main purpose of this system is to keep the sensitive information. The works on this system includes work systems and information technology (IT) processes. Lack of information flow actualizing thanks to various environments in internet threatens the future safety of information. Information is easily obtained without permission. Performing the information circulation through open networks increases the risk. Information Safety Management System includes what kind of actions should be taken toward keeping the easily obtained information and how a policy should be followed. In this study, in related to information management safety, SWOT Analysis toward what kind of strategy public institutes in Turkey follow will be carried out. Thus, emphasizing strengths and weaknesses on information safety, what the institutes will be able to do will be suggested so that they eliminate their weaknesses. In addition, how the institutes prevented the possible threats and evaluated the opportunities will be included in the study.