Based on interviews with the world’s top 100 financial institutions conducted in late 2008.
Digital information security issues have real business impact and result not only in financial losses and operational downtime, but also can damage reputations.
In Australia, issues of enterprise security have shown how vulnerable companies really are.
Loss of sensitive data stored on disks and memory sticks, sale of personal information by outsourced companies and daily incidents of identity theft and fraud all underline the fact that companies today need to analyse how to improve security through the implementation of cost effective security controls aligned with business risk.