Information and Communications Security - Environmental Analysis of a Public Institution: methodological framework for the implementation of security controls applied to information assets

Abstract

In today’s society, where information takes a strategic role in the formulating of organizational policies to obtaining favorable economic results, the efficient use of information resources has been a constant. This article aims to analyze, in a public institution, some information assets that need to be protected against threats as well as checking the current structure of physical security of this institution in which these assets are included, exemplifying some physical risks and associated controls that can be treated by contingency plans.