SustainCase: How State Street ensures client data protection and privacy
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Case study: How State Street ensures client data protection and privacy
As a global leader in asset management, and as the second oldest financial institution in the United States, with over 30,000 employees and offices in 30 countries around the globe, State Street is committed to protecting and properly handling sensitive client information through a range of information security and customer privacy programs and tools.
Abstract
Building trust and confidence with clients, not leasτ by making sure client data is handled responsibly over its entire life cycle, is a top priority for State Street. In order to ensure client data protection and privacy State Street took action to:
• use a software data classification tool
• implement a Data Loss Protection Program
• employ endpoint protection software
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