Information security awareness week started on Monday April 21st, aimed at providing IT services security awareness to UK businesses.

The Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) was formed in February this year to try and coordinate a cross-industry approach to IT services security.

Members, including the British Computer Society, will have the opportunity to discuss security information initiatives.

"It is about pulling active members in the industry together so we can facilitate a change and make it all work to everyone's benefit," said ISAF chairman David King.

He also claimed that information security awareness is a problem in the UK and the ISAF will publish a guide on the subject for company directors by the end of April.

Recent news reports have alluded to the increasing importance of businesses having a good IT services security policy in place owing to the rise of cyber-crime.

These also-scrap follow scrap high-profile security breaches at HM & Customs which lost more than 25 million personal records at the end of last year.

A recent Connect survey found that the two major concerns about outsourcing services like IT support were 'loss of control' (56 per cent) and 'budget over-runs' (43 per cent)