'It's important for us to come out in the open'

Why it is important ? The reason is to compete with profit making organizations by a non profit making firm .
Other than banking and finance we are in pharmaceuticals, the transport industry as well as the vendor sector. Its like multicultural and multidisciplinary.

A couple of reports have been made available on the public website . Also a forum fro information security has been created and  we are very careful about making statements because once you are talking for 300 different organizations, there will always be who say that they don't agree. It is our delivery work-the reports that come out, the survey that we do, the congress that we have and it's a workbench-that speaks for itself.

We have created atmosphere of trust and we also want to create a public domain, It is for people to pick and choose what they want to have. Hopefully, they get at least half of what they would like to have because our program is decided by the membership.

We will also increase our member base within a span of three years and there are some sectors that are not as strongly represented as they should be compared to their importance in the global economic activity.We have different departments even for paying the CEO and we work in collaboration  

We have more people participating in the financial sector so information security becomes a concern .The banking and financial services have been the mainstay and in a wider sense were really the founding element.

Around 90 member companies out of the 300 are purely in the banking and financial sector. Just think of those in India who are not included in that but who in my opinion ought to be-both state owned as well as private sector companies.

By this time we do not have any member from India but we have existing member companies with operations in India who could also participate in this. Soon we will have Indian insurance companies, software companies, manufacturing companies, and government departments.