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STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE AND ENABLING INNOVATION
Lloyds Banking Group has reinforced its defences against sophisticated phishing attacks while improving resilience . Intelligent CISO spoke with Paul Branley , Deputy CISO , Lloyds Banking Group , to find out more about the threats facing the organisation and how Garrison is helping to keep it secure both now and into the future .
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Can you introduce yourself and describe your job role ?
As Deputy CISO for Lloyds Banking Group , I head up the areas of strategy , innovation and testing .
Testing is my biggest team and its purpose is to ensure we can accurately assess how secure we are . Our strategy team , meanwhile , looks ahead to identify where we want to be in a few years ’ time . Finally , our innovation team aims to bridge the gap with some really clever , transformative solutions in order to address some of the hardest problems we ’ re facing today , in order to move us forward tomorrow .
As one of the UK ’ s leading financial service providers , how important is integrating resiliency into your business model to avoid downtime and ensure robust cybersecurity ?
Resilience is important and it ’ s becoming even more so as we become more reliant on technology as a business . Our customers are also using more and more technology in the way they consume the services we offer , so resilience is crucial .
At Lloyds Banking Group , we ’ re trying to make sure our services are available at all times of the day 24 / 7 / 365 when our customers want to access the services from wherever they choose , in whatever way they wish to access them .
How do global cybersecurity trends compare / differ to those in the UK and how does this impact your management style ?
In the cyber domain , there are no borders . We ’ re finding that adversaries and threats are global in nature – everywhere on the planet is just a couple of clicks away from accessing our services .
I don ’ t think the UK is any different to anywhere else in the world – the threats that we ’ re facing are very similar and are fast evolving .
Criminals are very innovative and it ’ s up to all of us to evolve quickly in return . We maintain a list of the top threats and modify them on a regular basis to keep our businesses informed , so that they can respond and monitor risk accordingly . Currently , the top threats relate to ransomware and the geopolitical environment . We ’ re
Paul Branley , Deputy CISO , Lloyds Banking Group concerned about any overspill from events that are happening on the global stage in relation to current conflicts . The data we hold is also extremely important so we ’ re always conscious that it ’ s an attractive target . Even when we ’ re really good at securing our business and our data systems ourselves , we need to think about the supply chain .
Can you talk us through your strategic vision when it comes to cybersecurity and your work with Garrison ?
Strategically , we want to take advantage of technology and more advantage of the Internet . Web access has always been a concern for us and I think traditionally we ’ ve controlled the risk by restricting and blocking things . www . intelligentciso . com
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