Need for an Information Security Practitioner at a Financial Institution continues to grow. Financial institutions have to abide by privacy, customer trust and information security laws and regulations which have increased significantly in the past 5-6 years. As threats to financial institutions widen from technical and infrastructure threats to those affecting applications,. applications and data and people, the role of new security functions is also evolving from being IT focused to becoming a business centric issue. The TJ Maxx incident exposed deeply grounded and long-term problems in the way financial institutions have been managing their sensitive customer data.”]