A company assumes a grave responsibility to protect and prevent leaks of confidential information, including the personal data of customers and stakeholders. In addition, information security is of great significance in internal control.

As SII regards the system for managing this information as a significant asset of the Group, we are continuously enhancing our system security.

We manage information security systematically and efficiently by forming a framework and rules based on SII's basic rules of information security: "Information System Security Policy" and "Information System Security Management Regulation".

We also reinforced data protection and the ability to operate the system stably by consolidating server storage and the system comprised of information assets, and making them redundant through virtualization technology. We also worked hard to achieve Green IT by working to save power and space.

The Tohoku earthquake caused communication failures and power outages, but fortunately no data loss.

We would like to establish a highly available system environment with a view to adopting cloud services as one means of preparing against disaster.

As protective measures designed to prevent corporate information leakage, we strengthened our information security technology, including uniform management of e-mail data and electronic documents, IT assets management and collection of PC operational log data.

We will develop further information security management tools that keep up with changes in IT technology, such as leveraging other mobile devices including smartphones.

SII established the Personal Information Protection Policy and other internal rules, including the "SII Group Personal Information Protection Basic Regulation", as well as strengthening information system-related measures. In order to prevent personal information loss or leakage due to negligence, we continuously provide education programs to each employee.