Our responsibility: Use and protect data properly, respecting all the relevant laws, helping evolve industry guidelines and new legislation, and ensuring a culture of compliance with the highest standards of integrity.
Data security is part of Experian’s culture. Whether it is implementing secure application development, changing passwords regularly, or simply locking a PC screen. Experian’s people understand the importance of data security.
We are globalising our Information Security function, increasing our resilience by creating a consistent approach and simplifying procedures and instructions. The Information Security team is supporting the growth of our business, reviewing information security risks and implementing robust infrastructures as we expand with new credit bureaux.
Employee training and awareness on information security remains a top priority. Education, training, week-long programmes, posters, video and email campaigns to raise awareness all play their part. We make it a requirement that employees complete an annual review of data security practices.
As well as making sure our data is secure, we play an important role in ensuring consumers’ best interests, as well as those of the business sector, are considered as country legislation governing data evolves. See the current CR report for details on developments in the past year.