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Published on March 20, 2008

Sawit Soothiput, product manager of Microsoft (Thailand) said the Computer Crime Act will play an important role in getting companies to store data and log files on hard disks or a data centre. Companies have to do this within 90 days. Failure to do so could result in imprisonment for five years or a fine of Bt100,000 or both.

He said Microsoft realised that the Crime Act will make companies more aware about information security.

"We want to create awareness among companies about information security. They will be able to check and monitor information and manage it using Microsoft System Centre," Sawit said.

He said in a bid to support companies doing business under the new Crime Act, Microsoft was coming out with a Computer Crime Act package. This would be distributed to companies nationwide via its business partners. Partners will bundle the new package to manage information and data with Microsoft System Centre.

Ampiga Jantarapagdee, solutions specialist at Microsoft said the package offers secure log data, scalable, and centralised log management to customers, which covers all existing platforms, applications and network devices.

She said the software collects logs from all sources and secures its contents. It is also able to compress and encrypt log data for storage and offers load balancing architecture.

It can also provide information via e-mail, short message service or instant messaging in order to ensure that the logs can be easily accessed by end users.

Jirapan Boonnoon

The Nation