Informantion Security Integrity and India

The issue has again cropped its ugly head again. Whether outsourcing to India is safe or not? In my opinion, it is safe, very safe. Probably even more safer than getting the job done in-house. Why? Some of the reasons are listed in the email I sent to the author and the publisher. I am not sure whether they will publish my email or not, but I just want to publish it on my blog.

Here is how it goes:
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I have been reading these breaches with quite some interest. In fact
when the first one happened, I was back there in India and it was a
hot topic across the IT fraternity of which I am a proud member. I
agree there have been some breaches. Not too long ago there was an
incident in Mumbai where a fired employee stole some tapes.

My question to all concerned is: Is the spotlight on India just
because the work is outsourced and offshored? What would the
corporations do if similar breaches happen here in the US? Just to put
things in perspective, in May Citibank reported loss of data of more
than a million customers in transit in post? Do they put in more
security controls in place for USPS, UPS and FedEx? Or do they stop
using it? Or should we stop using Citibank? And reflecting back on
numbers, how big is $300,000 as compared to stolen data or more than a
million customers? And I have not even talked about CardSystems and
Choicepoint and others. How much coverage was given to those by the
media?

We are very proud of our integrity and values and we treasure the
trust more than anything else. There are bad characters in all
societies. Is it really required to blow things out of proportions? I
come from one of the biggest software companies in India and in the
world, and we are proud of our security and integrity built in the
systems. We face the same questions from our clients every day and to
date we have increased our business and revenue year over year. Our
clients trust us and we provide them with the environment and the
facts and the deliverables which make them feel comfortable.

I would like to throw this question in the open for being answered.

Best regards,
Mukul Dharwadkar
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Maybe I will follow up this with some more reasons. I may not be as qualified for that. But I have a view of both the sides. I have worked in India for several years before coming to US. What do you think? Let me know and I might start a series on this as a regular feature. Or even a separate blog.