NIVEL DE APLICACIÓN DE SEGURIDAD INFORMÁTICA PARA EVITAR LA FUGA DE INFORMACIÓN EN LAS COOPERATIVAS DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE LA ZONA 1 DEL ECUADOR

Abstract

In this article is exposed, the leakage of information as an existing problem in the Savings and Credit Cooperatives due to the level of application of securities, it shows the statistics of the information that employees take from their place of work according to the Safety reports of manufacturers and suppliers of computer security tools, shows the results of the field research carried out to the personnel of Technology, Systems, Securities, through surveys that include 38 items related to people, processes and technology that intervene in the control, distribution and safeguarding of physical and digital documents that contain sensitive or valuable information, forms of information leakage and their countermeasures. With the results it is concluded that confidence in the personnel that manages the file of physical documents, database, programmers, batch processes, securities, can not be guaranteed, there may be loss of physical documents with information of partners and clients, when it is shared information with other entities not all information is sent encrypted, computer security reviews reveal vulnerabilities in cardholder information, these conclusions constitute the inputs to establish the criteria for compliance with the recommendations and activities to be met in the short, medium and long term that contribute to the problem and strengthen the securities to avoid the leakage of information in the financial cooperatives.