Fergie's Tech Blog

The Trouble With Customers and Their Data

A Wall Street & Technology article, via Dark Reading, reports that:

The financial services industry certainly is aware of threats to customer data privacy. Firms are well informed about previous data breaches at nonprofit and for-profit entities alike. These events are grabbing headlines globally and are foremost on the minds of existing and potential clients, so financial institutions must be attentive to consumers' concerns, mustn't they?

Yet, time and again, reports surface of hackers, dishonest insiders, careless data handling and lost laptops leading to the exposure of customer information.

posted by Fergie @ 1/16/2007 10:50:00 AM