Baillie Gifford better secures wealth management data

17.03.2012

Colin Lennox, technical services manager at Baillie Gifford, said: "DatAdvantage covered all our requirements for data access and permissions auditing, plus the reports it produces means even a layperson can quite easily pick up, interpret and action them."

Inbuilt "traffic lights" in the software identify excessive permissions which can be tightened.

Lennox said: "DatAdvantage has enabled us to remove the risks associated with data permission changes within our IT environment. Employees with responsibility for sensitive and critical data now have confidence that there are no security exposures."

Corporate information stored on file servers and network attached storage (NAS) devices represents a major security risk, confirmed recent research. The Ponemon Institute said IT governance policies and access rules are incapable of dealing with a massive growth of unstructured data. It surveyed 870 IT professionals and found that only 23 believed unstructured data stored by their companies is properly secured and protected.