Security

The protection of an organisation’s assets has always been important. Significant resources have been devoted to the protection of physical assets, trademarks, and trade secrets – today, information assets need similar levels of protection.

Concerns about privacy of client data, financial liability, and exposure of essential business infrastructure have heightened the awareness of organisations’ information security programs.

Identity theft has become one of the highest growth crimes and shows no evidence of slowing down – and almost all losses are a burden on financial institutions. But while the monetary cost of identity theft is substantial, of equal concern is the potential (and real) damage to an institution’s reputation. In a recent study, financial institutions cited identity theft as the number one threat to their business.

And to ramp up the pressure even more, the financial services industry is expected to take a leading role in preventing money laundering and potential terrorist funding whilst also combating the ever-changing Malware threats.

Regulations, legislation, liability, and business partner requirements all mandate that organisations align information security to business requirements.

Financial institutions are looking for technology vendors with solutions and products that can deal with multiple lines of business and capable of handling millions of transactions per day. Key executives look to turn mandatory spend into innovative spend in order to not only increase efficiency but also maximise bottom line returns.

Under Discussion

Protecting customer information
The value of all-points protection in combating identity fraud
The increasing value and adoption of internet-based technologies
Next generation firewalls, VPNs and intrusion prevention
Identity and access management
Tracking and monitoring methodology and technology
Compliance for international organisations: coping with conflicting rules
Smartcard technology
Data availability versus data security
Rootkits and detection evasion

Roundtable Invitation

Financial Services Technology will be putting together an exciting and influential roundtable of elite vendors to discuss the main focus areas. Questions will be put to C-level executives leading these individual companies so that they may address the concerns of Europe's financial sector.

The roundtable will be moderated by our journalists and allows the best and brightest to educate our audience through their thought leadership and best practices.