May 20, 2013, Melbourne, Australia – The KPI Institute, the global authority on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) research and education announces the launch of a new report in its 2011-2012 edition of its popular Top 25 series of reports. The series is based on research conducted through www.smartKPIs.com, which contains over 20,000 Key Performance Indicator examples, making it the world’s largest source of thoroughly documented KPIs.

Information security is concerned with protecting the information and the IT systems, assuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of its form. KPIs refer not only to the quantity of IT security systems in place, but also to their qualitative implementation and their real security protection outputs. If confidential information about a business’ customers, finances or new product line falls into the hands of a competitor, it could have negative consequences on the company. Protecting confidential information is a business requirement and in many cases, also an ethical and legal requirement. For the individual, information security has a significant effect on privacy, which is viewed very differently from culture to culture. (more…)