dc.contributor.author | Wasilwa, Meshack O | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-15T05:35:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-15T05:35:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Masters of business administration | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22699 | |
dc.description.abstract | In today's complex IT environments, managing security is made more challenging
as businesses expand and extend to a broader consumer base. The enterprise
security infrastructure has become populated with diverse technologies installed
across heterogeneous systems. This has resulted in pressure on businesses to
understand the need for information security, the choices that you have to
implement and maintain the right information security strategy for the organisation.
Quoting what Walter Wriston, the former chairman of Citicorp, said some years
back:" Information about money is just as important as money itself." It
underscores the importance of information and the need to guard this information
from unauthorized access.
This study aims at determining the Security posture of the banks in Kenya that are
in normal operations as per the Central Bank of Kenya regulations. Out of a total of
44 banks, only 30 responded to the questionnaires. This is due to the fact that the
study is focused on Security, an area considered very sensitive in the Banking
domain.
The study had two objectives namely:
1. To identify various approaches by the management towards security
implementation in comparison to the Best practices of Computer
security.
2. To establish the level of Computer Security Vulnerability III the
Banking Sector in Kenya. -
To satisfy the above objectives, data was collected using questionnaires and
analysed using various statistical tools including descriptive statistics and factor
analysis.
The findings of the study indicate that most of the Banks have made averagely
Kshs.I09.84 Million as investment in Information Technology. However, most of
the Banks do not have an Information Technology professional at the executive
Board level.
lam pleased to present to you the results of a Survey on Computer Security
Vulnerability at 30 medium and large banks in Kenya.It is my hope that this survey
will provide valuable insight on the extent of Security Vulnerability and the level
of security awareness in the Kenyan banking institutions and assist the
managements' in the betterment of implementing the Best practices of Computer
Security. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | A survey of computer security vulnerability in the banking industry in Kenya | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | school of Business, University of Nairobi | en |