Consider:

One email in 281 contains a virus or phishing attack. Over three quarters of all email is spam.

A UK government survey found that 72 per cent of organisations with between 50 and 500 staff suffered an average of 15 incidents a year.

Skipton Financial Services

Skipton Financial Services has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for not encrypting the information of 14,000 clients on a laptop that was stolen.

The laptop contained names, dates of birth, NI numbers and investment amounts.

Securapro – IT security for financial advisers

Product overview

Financial advisers are dependent on IT systems and are obliged to store sensitive client data on their computers. It is important to protect your IT infrastructure, data, email, network, and desktop and server systems. In addition, it is important that IT security is extended to prevent breaches in compliance rules and regulations. IT security should be a high priority for every financial adviser.

Cybercrime is a genuine threat to financial advisers. The volume of malware threatening critical systems is on the increase, as are phishing, drive-by-downloads and zero-day exploits. Protect your IT systems and data with Securapro.

Standard features include:

• Full disk encryption.
• Email spam and content filtering.
• Encrypted email.
• Malware filtering.
• USB, CD and DVD device encryption.
• And much more.

Regulatory compliance

Regulatory and governance requirements are an increasingly important driver in the need to protect sensitive data. Companies are being required to disclose breaches that place Personal Identifiable Information (PII) at risk, be it from a customer, employee, shareholder, partner, or other stakeholder prospective.

In addition, professional bodies like the Financial Services Authority (FSA) have introduced a host of compliance regulations and initiatives. Read our publication Meeting your information security obligations - a guide to FSA Compliance

Securapro from Octree provides your business with comprehensive protection from current and future threats. Simple to deploy and kept up-to-date automatically, it is the one-stop IT security solution. Securapro can be fulled integrated with existing virus protection software.

For more information call 0845 6171819 today!