Although it is considered as a leader in information technology (IT) in management, but the field of information storage, safety and security of the financial sector is still low. Initiation.
Great demand
The financial sector currently has more than 1,100 LANs, nearly 2,000 servers, and about 40 application programs that carry out nationwide operations. The Treasury Information System connects the state treasury network with 64 provinces, 620 districts, serving more than 7,000 users.
In order to serve the management and administration, the Ministry of Finance has established and archived five database repositories (DBs) with data sources collected from the industry's operational applications. Only in the field of taxation, the database of tax payers has stored information of over 1.8 million tax payers. In addition, the database object store used to store budget information is over 63,000 objects.
The demand for data storage and data security of units under the Ministry of Finance is very great, from the Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics, General Department of Taxation, State Treasury to the General Department of Customs.
Organization of data in the state treasury system consists of three levels: the State Treasury keeps the data of the State Treasury office and the provinces; provincial level archives data of provincial and district offices of the State Treasury; District level shall keep records of District State Treasury. 1TB of data (Tera Byte), 2TB of system data and 5TB of data backup.
Data storage needs to store at the General Department of Taxation about 20GB, in addition to storing 8GB of system software data, text data files, 12GB actual database system. For an average tax department (there are 64 tax departments in the country), the database is up to 8-10GB, other data about 3-5GB. Estimated storage capacity increases annually from 10-20%.
... Apply manually
With its very broad and multi-level deployment characteristics, data mining in the financial industry is fragmented and lacking in linkage. In addition, data storage for analysis and research has not been properly addressed.
As the data spread, the financial sector has soon implemented a comprehensive ATBM financial information system to ensure data security. However, technology solutions and implementation options in each area are still very problematic, both in terms of policy mechanism and technology security issues.
At the same time, the preservation of data in the State Treasury is also manual, the data stored with the application does not constitute a data warehouse. Data backup is primarily for backup purposes. Data management is weak, confidentiality is not high. The collection, storage and management of data is also difficult. Data recovery at the district level when the device is still a lot of embarrassing. Equipment used for storage is many, asynchronous. There is no overall solution for storage and security.
For Tax Departments, data backup and recovery is a matter of concern. Backing up to a tape drive, backing up to a single computer, is just a solution. The ability to restore backed up data is also a challenge for the tax industry, which is due to the fact that it is not feasible to spread the investment to all taxable backup server systems.
Technology or efficiency?
In the coming years, the Ministry of Finance will select a number of technologies for disaster prevention center solutions, organize storage systems for central and local authorities, real, electronic signature, encryption, network security.
With the development of the number and size of database systems and online processing requirements for taxpayers' applications on the Internet, in addition to enhancing online backups for Database, high-tech selection, stability and redundancy for servers, workstations, storage devices and solutions is an urgent need of the tax industry.
The needs and directions set for storage, security and security are clear. The other issue is the choice of technology to suit the reality of units in the financial industry and get the best effect. With the first time organizing the workshop Storage, security and network systems in the financial industry , leaders of the Ministry of Finance hope to find solutions to application technology for storage, security specific to each sector need to deploy Finance.
The conference and exhibition of information and communication technology 2004 will be officially opened in the morning of September 28 in Hanoi.
