Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine May 2019 | Page 179

Engaging Department of Finance WA staff is a key component in Finance ’ s digital transformation
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“ We treat cybersecurity as more than an IT issue ,” he says . “ Fundamentally , the weakest point of any organisation ’ s security practices is its people .” To that end , the Department has ingrained a culture of awareness and vigilance amongst its employees to mitigate this risk as much as possible . The Department has also established an information security management framework that complies with the ISO 27001 international standard , with around 114 security controls in place . At an IT level , its transition to the cloud has benefitted again from the Department ’ s close work with Microsoft , enabling multi-factor authentication through the Azure platform along with proven concept trials around Azure data protection capabilities .
“ It ’ s about framing the metadata within documents and adding different security controls around how and with whom those documents can be shared , and preventing the ability to share externally if certain parameters
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