Management and electronic information security: requirements for effective document management in Brazil

The management and information security, the organization's main asset, are imperative issues at the Age of Information and Knowledge. Practicing at documentary and informational management field in public institutions from Brazil, it has been showed a lack of an appropriate electronic information management model suited to an organization also an information security policy. This paper reflects about an urgent necessity for electronic information management, aiming efficient document management, and the importance of adopting information security policy to ensure its integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, availability, non-repudiation and long term preservation.