Risk Management

Information security, trade secrets, fire prevention and protection against disasters, risk countermeasures, environmental protection, and safety and sanitation, are all issues which should be tackled as a social duty by the organization.
These issues are particularly important for Hitachi Information Systems. We, as an IT services company, store important client information and are managing business operations.
Each workplace handles various types of information, including original records and computer lists, recording media, and classified client information is stored on our computers.
If an incident involving client information we manage occurs, it can cause immeasurable damage to the customer and be a critical problem for us.

Steps including the establishment of rules and guidelines, implementing training, and creating and distributing manuals, are taken by each section responsible for risks concerning compliance, the environment, disasters, quality, and export trade control among others.
An executive officer is specified who is responsible for prompt action in respect of risks when they arise or when their occurrence is anticipated.
Moreover, risks associated with the promotion of the business are monitored continuously from five points of view: decision-making by the executive officer (discussion by the management meeting), budgets and results management (implementation of the budget system), ensuring efficiency and compliance (internal audit, establishment of various committees based on company rules, compliance reporting system), ensuring the reliability of financial reports (in cooperation with the accounting auditors), and the establishment of company rules.
We also declared “reinforcement of risk countermeasures” as a key theme of CSR activities in 2006 fiscal year, and continued to strengthen risk countermeasures in respect of information security, to promote education activities, and to continuously review our risk management systems.

Hitachi Information Systems Group Risk Countermeasure Guidelines and the Risk Countermeasure Regulations relating to the risks from natural disasters, political disturbances, and criminal acts etc. are being implemented company-wide.
Risk Countermeasure Regulations were established in 1999 and revised in 2005. These specify required items including systems and the roles of people who are primarily responsible for accident prevention and countermeasures.
Observing these regulations will help keep damage from risks including natural disasters, political disturbances, and criminal acts which may have a major impact on the business management, to a minimum, will mean the immediate recovery of company business when incidents do occur, and the protection of clients and business partners, as well as employees and their families, and company assets.