Alec DeSimone, senior manager of internal audit at San Francisco-based Del Monte Foods Co. has a lot of say about how
his company is improving security on business intelligence systems and spreadsheets in an interview with Computerworld last week. Looks like they are doing a good job securing their food products and keeping the nation healthy. Here's a gist of the steps they are taking in light of increasing laptop thefts and data breaches:
- We have a pretty robust BI security plan in place. We now are trying to standardize our access and security procedures across all platforms.
- We set up some preliminary practices in [early 2005] to secure the data, and to ensure that data -- especially data that flowed through spreadsheets -- was presented consistently. We set up a change management process. We put the spreadsheets on servers that had limited access.
- We limit people's access to the BI system. We have security over that data. Our feeling is that if they have been granted a certain type of access to the data . . . that is our security over what they can download and what they can't.
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