Great-West Lifeco and the importance of cyber security

“ We take cyber security very seriously . I ’ m a great believer in a defence and depth strategy , where you have multiple layers of protection technology that overlap . Cyber criminals are getting more sophisticated , and you have to respond with more sophisticated defences .”

“ Our primary partner in cyber security is FireEye , we ’ re currently using their endpoint detection and remediation technologies . We ’ re also a valued subscriber of their threat intelligence feeds , iSight services , and we use their consulting organization , Mandiant , quite extensively . FireEye is passionate about cyber protection , and we ’ ve been delighted with the strength of our partnership and

the results we ’ ve seen so far .”

“ But it ’ s not good enough just to dig a moat around your data centre and protect your employees ’ devices anymore . You have to extend your cyber security fabric and protection out to the intelligent edge of your network , out to the cloud and the internet . We ’ re using cloud-enabled cyber protection companies , like Zscaler and their sophisticated sandboxing technology , to extend our defences well outside the data centre to the intelligent edge . Zscaler was the first to move into this space in a big way , and we have a strong relationship with this talented team . Cyber is such a complicated , fast moving space that you have to choose your partners carefully - and we have .”