KSE to hire information security expert

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-238069-KSE-to-hire-information-security-expert

By Shahid Shah
The News
March 14, 2014

KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is hiring the chief information 
security officer to ensure security of data, official sources said on 
Thursday.

They said four candidates have already been shortlisted for the position. 
The acting CISO is conducting interviews of the candidates.

The sources said the decision was taken after the managing director of the 
KSE had received an email in July last year, which alleged that some 
officials of its Information Technology department were involved in data 
leakage. This newspaper had reported the issue even before the 
above-mentioned email.

The email shot from an unknown source stated that some people had access 
to highly confidential data of buying and selling of shares.

Consequently, the board of directors constituted an internal audit 
committee and initiated an enquiry against this, which caused expulsion of 
four employees of IT department, while a general manager of the department 
was sent on forced leave in August 2013.

The KSE had hired an independent forensic consultant Sidat Hyder Morshed 
Associate to investigate the highly sensitive matter and inspect the 
computers of the IT department.

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