Kent Reliance Banks on niu’s Security and Compliance

March 14, 2012 - PRLog -- London, UK - ICT services provider, niu Solutions, today announced that regional bank, Kent Reliance, is working with its Compliance & Security Practice to develop and deliver a strategy that enables increased confidence and value for customers and investors. The service includes niu’s Virtual Information Security Manager (VISM); providing Kent Reliance with a vast virtual team of experts, on-demand, to assist in managing information security and governance risks while reducing cost and complexity.

Following a business restructure, Kent Reliance looked to re-assess its security strategy and sought an objective and professional service that would help the internal team develop a clear roadmap for quickly achieving, and maintaining compliance regulations, such as PCI DSS,  and the highest level of security across the business. niu works in close collaboration with the bank’s IT team to provide professional advisory, consultancy, compliance and IT security services.

Steve Dockrell, Head of IT at Kent Reliance explains, “niu has become our virtual security team - an extension of our business. Having this know-how on-tap has enabled us to create and execute security strategies and compliance roadmaps that will deliver long-term benefits to the organisation.  Not only are we minimising risk through knowledge and enhancing confidence in our services but, through our work with niu, we’re helping maintain and increase our bottom line value.”

Kent Reliance’s partnership with niu has also heightened the visibility of the IT team’s work around security & compliance issues within the company. Dockrell continues:

“IT is now high on the agenda at Kent Reliance. The formation of our Information Security Committee means we’re now educating and informing stakeholders who, in turn, can help raise standards and implement best practice.”

Darren Pitman, Head of niu’s Compliance & Security Practice, concludes. “Our partnership with Kent Reliance has allowed them to put IT back into the hearts and minds of customers, investors and the board alike. Advice, guidance and hands-on technical expertise on-site on call and on demand means we’re thinking about compliance posture on a day-to-day basis and making ongoing recommendations to keep pace with the ever-changing security and threat landscape. We have become an extension of the internal IT team. This provides Kent Reliance all the support they would get from a full time information security officer, and more, but without the price tag.”

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