Finance; Securities; Insurance
At any point of time, you take a visit to any search engine, be it Google; MSN; Yahoo about FSI cyber-security challenges or IT Security measures for FSI or Top target of hackers and more. You will find a lot of information that need no elaboration on the importance and criticality of this sector.
It came a point where no explanation required to spell what the FSIs need to do to secure their crown jewel; or to protect the interest of their shareholders and investors; to maintain the branding and image and most of all the clients’ data. They are constantly check and validated by regulator and some strategic organisations to stay compliant so to transact business. They do have high level of measures put in place to structure internal staff skills and upgrade their knowledge to protect their informations.
Technology advances at the speed of light and adoption to cope with business demand requires extreme attention to ensure safety and security. Test driving with a proof-of-technology maybe relevant but in most cases FSI do not have much luxury for both time and money yet job needs to get done. Most CIOs in this sector runs a tight ship and should there be any security breaches be it internally or externally. It spare no ones – human resources become pressured while an execution into such investigations make it even harder as most of IT personnel wears more then one hat.
It is not about technology chaser but focus on holistic approach for all aspect of information technology with recommended strategy worked out by industry expertise and practitioners. One last key pointer to remind all in this sector is not to ignore education and raising the bar of awareness within your organisation. Make learning fun with your internal users and have them appreciate cyber-security and cyber-crime. Some active organisations incorporate their security policy into part of the human resource policy and send updates via their intranet. “Security starts from within and individual”
FSI takes no hesitation to mitigate risk and challenges by setting priorities right. In recognizing such positive effort, Quantiq International continues to strive to serve this critical field with partnership of all our ELITES. (link to the ELITES Page)
