Evaluation of Information Security and Use of ICT in Selected Agro Sector Enterprises of the Slovak Republic

Information technologies are a necessary part of business assets, even in agriculture. They are important for withstanding the everyday information competition, because information is the most used input nowadays. We can consider information as a factor of production by traditional three production factors: soil, labour and capital. In our information society everyone works with information, from ordinary user to big companies. Appropriate security of data and information technologies is also necessary. Knowledge how agriculture enterprises use information for daily work and what kind of effectiveness information technologies bring to them is important in our information society. In the past when the Slovak republic was part of the Czechoslovakia, this united country had a sophisticated information system which was connected to every agriculture enterprise in the country and authorised persons like economists, informatics, etc. had access to comprehensive data about the whole agriculture in the country. After the change of political situation in 1993 these connections and the whole system was divided and now there is an effort to create the interconnected system again.