Modifying Security Frameworks for Organisations across Europe

When you add the responsibility for information and security in an organisation that ranges across Europe, life becomes even more complex. You also need to accommodate differences in mindset about legislative severity, and differences in national character. Within countries, many of the challenges remain the same for CIOs, wherever they are based. They must try to operate a security model that has changed from a "fortress" - where everything was kept out - to an "airport" style security. Now everyone is rushing around in different directions aiming for different destinations, and their credentials to "fly" or interact with the company need to be checked.

Organisations need to welcome everyone in from partners to customers and hope they are friends, not foes. The key word is now "deperimeterisation". But opening up the perimeter means organisations require knowledge of identities through trust and confidence.

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