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Simon Romp - Rule Financial - London | 17/06/2011 | 3327 views

Avoiding complacency....test, test, and test again!

The data breach at Citi demonstrates the ever increasing sophistication of security attacks and the volume of highly personal data that banks hold. With fraudulent techniques continually evolving, banks, just like any other organisation that needs to be trusted, must put themselves under constant scrutiny from both internally led teams and independ... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Simon Romp - Rule Financial - London | 17/06/2011 | 2944 views

Employee education is at the heart of data loss prevention

While the debate rages on as to whether the recent attack on the IMF (International Monetary Fund) was indeed a state-sponsored attack, the security industry should focus its efforts on thinking about how to prevent these types of attacks in the first place. It seems that the IMF has fallen victim to spear-phishing whereby specific people within th... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

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