Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 62

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology #GenMobile forcing banking mobile security to up its game The finance sector has a data security problem, but it goes beyond external threats from hackers — this is a threat from within. Jacob Chacko, Business Lead – SMB & Commercial, Middle East & Turkey at Aruba, explains what this threat is and how your business can combat it. T he finance sector is in agreement: there’s a major global threat to the success of the banking and finance industry, one that ignores boom and bust cycles, doesn’t care about stock market fluctuations and wouldn’t bat an eyelid if interest rates suddenly jumped ten points. But this threat is also an essential and highly successful ingredient in the revival of the finance industry’s fortunes. What is this unwitting, nonmalicious threat? It’s your mobile-tech carrying employees themselves. Which ones? You’ve heard of Generation X (you might be one yourself), Generation Y (you probably employ a few of these), and Generation Z (the Internet’s digital natives), but there’s another category to add to the list: #GenMobile. 62 INTELLIGENTCIO Brought up in H