By now, there's been ample media coverage of the terror attacks in Mumbai, and how terrorists managed to use the loopholes in our system to achieve their objective. Never before was there such an uproar from the entire nation over this episode, which clearly reflects that we've run out of patience at the lax attitude of the govt. toward the country's security. While we wait for the govt. to do something about it, it's time we also did something to combat this menace.After all, security is everyone's responsibility, if we d.on't want any further loss of lives, property, business, and market reputation. We received lots of queries fr.om many CIOs on how should they use IT to protect their infras'tructure., Considering that IT systems are the backbone of most businesses, the CIOs obviously have a reason to worry.

So in order to understand what Indian enterprises are doing to secure their infrastructures, we did a small survey of around 30 CIOs from leading organizations across the country. BY.,and large, everyone's definitely worried. A majority of the eros said that their organization was very worried about the secur.ity of their infrastructure, and were quite serious about doing something about it. Some of them had even gotten special budgets sanctioned for strengthening their IT security.