It is doubtless which the technologies of the information (IT) have become the axis on which the commercial operations of and between the companies are developed, connect the chains between suppliers, sustains the public administration and of increasing way one ties to the companies with his clients, the lenders of services with his users and to the governmental organisms with the citizens.

The coming of the digital era, raised a conceptual change in relation to the IT, since the same ones were considered based on their operational capacity and are present at, like a determining resource to achieve the success in the businesses and the efficiency in the public management. Nevertheless, like all infrastructure technology that manages to expand at global level, one has become, happening of potentially strategic resources to commoditized factors of production. It has become a necessary cost as much for the sector deprived as for the governmental one, which does not raise differences in the competitiveness or in the models of management. This is the reason why the IT as their applications well became commodities.

The great investment in IT made during the decade of 1990, based on the competition in the international markets, has taken to a greater general technological capacity with a consequent diminution of the prices, due to which the technology widely became accessible and reasonable. At the same time, the fast development of the IT entailed to the adoption of universal technical standards, from which the proprietary systems became obsolete. , as the best practices widely became known, it was even begun to standardize until the methodology in the use of the technology.

The basic functions of the IT (the storage, processing and transport of data), are within reach of all and in the businesses the IT have presented/displayed in increase, a history of connectivity and interoperability, from mainframe to the LAN and the Intranet amplest to Internet; that it accelerated the commoditization of the IT, when providing the channel adapted for the transference of applications freeware.

Reason why at the moment, no company or organism would have to conceive its strategy of business and model of management, based on the comparative advantage by the use of IT since the same one is or a necessary one. However, we think for a moment that effects have in the activity of the companies or management of the organisms of the state, the fault, or interruption of the information systems.

The associated operative risks with the IT are many, from involuntary technical faults to discontinuity of the service, happening through most serious, as they are the fraud, the sabotage, or the espionage in the computer science systems, without mentioning the damage to institutional prestige. And if we considered that the computer science networks do not present/display borders and the activities of "intelligence" on the IT are in growth, knowing partly that as opposed to the stagnation of the competitiveness based on the IT which more strategic value has it is the sensible information and on the other hand like answer to the lack of adoption of policies of security on the same ones.

Perhaps to worry itself by the security in the information systems does not seem as advantageous as to speculate the future on of the businesses or the policy, but at this moment it is very important and it constitutes a true strategic value, for the sustainable success.

To be conscientious of this reality and on the matter not to take concrete measures, is knowledge that we have a pump of time of multiple effects, installed in the same heart of our activity (our information systems), but without having total certainty of when and with what intention will be detonated.