Bank Technology News recently interviewed John Meakin, Head of Information Security at Standard Chartered, on the needs to protect sensitive information being used by more than 55,000 users. I thought this was an interesting article that illustrated some of the challenges many of our customers are facing today.
BTN: What was the initial problem that led Standard Chartered to look for outside help?
John Meakin: We, like any other major corporation with a diverse deployment of IT, have gradually realized over the past four, five years that we used to have business critical information in electronic form sitting inside a traditional application space, and by virtue of that we were reasonably sure as to where the information was in the first place, and we were reasonably sure about what uses were made of that information, because that was all coded into the application. The realization is that has increasingly become less and less an accurate picture of the way the business uses information.
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