UNIONBANK
“ Engaging in the industry personally , with both people inside and outside of the Philippines , is number one on my bucket list ”
HENRY AGUDA CTOO AND CTO , UNIONBANK
which can be operated from three different continents , has proved remarkably effective .
“ We ' ve been consistently recognised by our regulator for the education campaign in the ‘ privacy by design ’ approach that we take with our systems . You have to be one or two steps in front of the criminals . Otherwise , they will eat your lunch if you snooze . So , that ' s the approach we ’ ve taken .”
He explains , “ Privacy by design is a prescription by the National Privacy Commission . Everything we do from starting off an IP product check to creating a product , to creating an employee programme , has to be built into those programmes from day one , with data privacy protections , whether it ' s processes or technology implementation .
“ Often , the problems arise because companies do an IP project or a product development and the privacy compliance comes at the end . In our case , nothing gets started until it has the approval of our data