Role of Managers in Safety Risk Management in Integration Information Systems

In today's business environment, information-communication technologies (ICT) play a significant role, and integrated information systems (IIS) become crucial for business success, therefore it is important to consider all safety risks which may impact their safety and consistency. Some of these risks may be partially prevented by preventive activities so that they do not appear, some may be only partially impacted, while the appearance of other risks such as natural disasters are often out of human control. Whatever the way in which these risks appear, the damage they can create to IIS system of one or more networked organisations can have a large negative impact on their business. Information safety implies the state of confidentiality, integrity and availability of data created and/or used in electronic form, and which is achieved by applying specified norms on information safety, and organisational support for planning, implementation, verification and processing of these norms. In this paper, information safety has been considered from the point of view of concentric circles in which the central circle is made of risks which directly impact electronic data, then there are circles in which risks are viewed from the point of view of disruption of integrity of data, while the outer circle is based on risks significant for operative business running of an organisation and the role of top management in the process of its management. What are the ways in which safety of IIS system may be threatened, how to protect it and what top managers in an organisation are to know in order to actively participate in the process of management of safety risks – were crucial questions in the process of defining research problems and setting a hypothesis that the efficient management of safety risks is proportional to the amount of active participation of top management in the process of implementing protection. Results of descriptive analysis of relevant sources indicate that the importance of knowledge on information safety is an unavoidable component of manager's knowledge, and indicates further implementation of research aimed at detecting metrics relevant for the evaluation of maturity of top managers as holders of management of risk safety in integrated information systems.