Mitigating information security risk in financial sector

Summary form only given. Number of incidents of information security violations are increasing year by year. Organizations are now suffering more from data theft than from physical theft. Financial sector became an obvious target as “that´s where the money is”. At the same time, companies are spending huge amounts of money trying to secure systems that are unlikely ever to be attacked. Hence the investigative journey into what is information security and how it encapsulate Information system security and broader sphere of other non-electronic formats of information. Then to share some real life examples of information security violations. Finally to discuss information security risk mitigation framework for financial sector.