Human resources policy in relation to cybernetic security in Slovak medium and small companies

University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

^* Corresponding author: benita.belanova@euba.sk

Abstract

Due to a mass penetration of information technologies into all business processes, researches in area of IS/IT field within medium and small companies has gained on significance. With the aim to acknowledge the status of information safety in the environment of Slovak medium and small companies a research has been carried out, which focused on identifying: threats on information systems; methods for treating information safety; and major obstacles in implementation of secure and safe policy. Within this research a special part was dedicated to companies’ human resources policy in relation to cybernetic security. The research separately focused on staff provisioning in area of IS/IT. It surveyed who and on what position is responsible for this field, what requirements should be fulfilled by such people, which knowledge is the most valued and which they miss. The second area we focused on, was the organization of the security policy in relation to all employees, but mainly to users of information systems. The research was performed in the years 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2017 and the results about human resources are presented in this article. The respondents were company owners, managers and specialists form IS/IT field.