—
Ben Maxim,
Assistant Vice President of Digital
Strategy and Innovation at MSUFCU“ So we’re either
getting something
out of it or we’re
showing ourselves
that this isn’t the
right thing to do
because our
members don’t
want it or the ROI
is just not there”Tim Mielak, MSUFCU’s chief informa-
tion security officer, has also enjoyed
the organization’s newfound agility. “The
Lab has really caused us to look at our
security review process. A traditional,
classic security review process is really
a gate, so we’ve had to develop over the
past year in anticipation of doing this sort
of innovation. We started to build out
security systems that could rapidly adapt
to the requirements of an innovation
lab.” The new process allows projects to
move quickly through the security proto-
cols “without being reckless”.With advances in the complexity of
attacks being met by increasing lay-
ers of security, is it becoming easier
to fend off threats, or much harder?
“It’s getting harder in new ways,” says
Mielak, “and easier in the old ways.”
“It’s the new avenues of security that
are going to start challenging us. And
I’ll give you a great example which
is artificial intelligence. AI is the buz-
zword. That’s true for products, but
it’s also true for security. Imagine a
future in, let’s say, five years where
security is entirely based on artificial154
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