A. Information Technology Service Continuity Management Standards and Plan
The Company is committed to provide outstanding services and products to its customers, employees, shareholders and suppliers.  To ensure the effective availability of essential products and services, the Group provides this IT Service Continuity Management Standards (“Standards”) in support of a comprehensive program for business continuity, disaster prevention and total business recovery.   
 
Purpose

The purpose of IT Service Continuity Management (“ITSCM”) is to support the overall Business Continuity Management (“BCM”) process by ensuring that the required IT systems, facilities and services (including computer systems, networks, applications, data repositories, telecommunications, environment, technical support and Service Desk) can be resumed within required, and agreed, business timescales.  



B. General Information Security Policy

The Company (i.e. ABS-CBN Corporation and the subsidiaries who will adopt this policy) recognizes the role of Information Security in ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Any risk or challenge to information security can affect and damage the Company’s operations, reputation and cause financial loss. To eliminate, or at the very least minimize and mitigate, these risks, Information Security Management shall be an integral part of the Company’s overall management system to establish, implement, monitor, review, maintain and improve information security.

Purpose

The overall objective of the General Information Security Policy is to establish mandatory requirements for the Company in securing all forms of information (e.g. computer data, documentation, intellectual property, etc.).

Scope

The General Information Security Policy (the “Policy”) covers all of the Company’s IT Resources. Further, this Policy is applicable to all Company data and information, regardless of format and platform used, now existing and hereinafter developed.