MIL/DNA India, Jul 11, 2007. Author:
Bangalore, India: July 11, 2007 (Wednesday) - The exposure that Glasgow's suicide bomber, Kafeel Ahmed, had done worked as a Senior Design Engineer for Infotech Enterprises in Banaglaore in 2005-06 has put the company to possible information security risks in several ways.
Since the company has prestigious aviation clients, including Pratt & Whitney and Boeing for whom it carries out outsourced engineering design work from Hyderabad and Bangalore, it is scared of its future, may lose some old prestigious contracts and may not get new prominent contracts.
Considering that Kafeel was said to be associated with al-Qaeda activist, Abbas Boutrab, who planned to blow up planes in UK four years ago, and that he was already indoctrinated by the time he joined the Bangalore company, the security risks are increased.
In the circumstances the company is having a re-look in their sensitive contracts and the security procedures since the exposure suggests that the company was not serious of the background of its employees.
As per DNA –India, Large IT companies make their employees sign an agreement to abide by their security policies and are subjected to several restrictions while at work.
Restriction on access to websites, the use of pen drives and CDS and a check on the use of email from the office are some of the precautions that the companies already take. Companies say they allow employees access to only relatively harmless data from homes.
“But nothing can be 100 per cent secure,” said Rajagopalan Trichy, the vice-president of J B A Infotech in Bangalore.
