A blog from Jon Geater, Director of Technical Strategy for the information technology security activities of Thales, who add that they secure more than 70 per cent of payments’ transactions worldwide.
Information security and compliance often swim together in the collective minds of CIOs, and so in the mainstream the adoption of information security technologies tends to be related to how well they solve compliance issues. From many perspectives this is not unreasonable: corporate IT departments can’t be experts in all areas and they need guidance. However, this can lead to the undesirable situation where compliance projects drive security initiatives and organisations are left under-protected.
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