The annual Global Security Seminar brought together Rabobank
International Security Officers from all regions and from affiliates
such as BGZ Bank and Bank Sarasin. This year, the seminar
was held at the end of June at the Head Office in Utrecht.
It provided a forum in which to discuss issues, strategies
and effective tools for ensuring that
the bank and its information are
well-protected. The Word met
with a number of the Officers to
find out what they gained
from the seminar, and what
concerns keepthem
awake at night.
Brigid Dunne, ACC Bank (Ireland) Information Systems
Security Officer:
Teresa Kaminska, BGZ Bank (Poland) Security Office Manager:
Ideas
for G oba
Security
'The focus of our security initiatives at ACC Bank includes security awareness
and security monitoring. Most monitoring is currently preformed manualiy,
and this should be automated to be more effective. With regards to Security
Awareness, it is always important to reinforce the message within the business
that IT, Physical and Environmental security are key to the efficiënt and secure
workings of the bank.'
'I hope to piek up some ideas for security monitoring system implementation. I
know that's a priority for my global colleagues, so l'm sure together we can find a
good solution. Manual monitoring of system security is simply unreliable, which
is a risk. I am also looking for some help to implement an identity management
system. We discussed single sign-on solutions for some areas, because multiple
sign-ons force people to have multiple passwords that they invariably write
down, creating a security weakness.'
