OREANDA-NEWS. On 24-25 April there took place I International Forum “Information technologies and information security in mechanical engineering. Industry solutions. MEIT-2008” organized by KAMAZ Inc. jointly with the Information Systems Academy in Naberezhnye Chelny. 
The main topics considered by the participants of the forum concerned the aspects of IT-management, schemes of suppliers and clients’ cooperation in the course of IT-outsourcing, the role of data processing centers by the use of IT, nuances of plans and policies of modern information security systems. The participants of the forum exchanged their experience and opinions during round tables.

As Ildar Shamilov, Deputy Director General of KAMAZ Inc. of Security, noted: “An effective information security system can’t be considered as a group of separate components. Information security of the state directly depends on effectiveness of security systems of all enterprises and organizations working on its territory. And information security of the world community is inseparably linked with development of this issue in each country. Breach of information security even at one enterprise inevitably causes a series of consequences which can have a pernicious effect on the work of the state machine on all levels. Consequently, it’s necessary to solve such problems together”.

That’s why the representatives of corresponding government services, CEO, CIO of the automobile enterprisers of Russia, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Japan, People’s Republic of China, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Russian and international companies – developers and suppliers in the sphere of information technologies and information security, managers and experts of the largest automotive enterprises of the Russian Federation – were invited to discuss IT- and information security issues.

According to the participants of the forum, the results obtained in the course of its work laid the foundation for the further study of informatization and information security in mechanical engineering of Russia and other countries. They identified promising lines of information technologies development in the system of Russian machine building enterprises.