Predict, prevent,protect:
How Lenovo is transforming
security for Financial Services

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Windows 11 Pro for Business.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Transforming security and thedigital experience for Financial Services
How modern technology can enhance customer satisfaction,
strengthen underlying security, and make next-generation
solutions and services available and affordable.

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Cyber security:

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Risk and Compliance:

A clear understanding ofcustomer needs—and aclear vision of the way
ahead through innovativetechnology and services.

ThinkShield and more: How
Lenovo and its partners are
helping financial institutions
tackle the ever-growing
challenge of cyber security.

Can RegTech ensurecompliance, and dataprotection, while reducing
the regulatory burden facedby IT departments?

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predict and prevent

monitor and manage

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Cloud security:
migrate andmaximize

Keeping data safe during
migration and afterwards—
Lenovo will help you design
your cloud security strategy
for today and tomorrow.

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the right choices

Digital transformation,
sustainability—and why
trust is an integral elementof any Financial Services
organization’s offering.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

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4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

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Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?
An unrivaled portfolio

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

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A time ofunprecedented change
The global financial system is going throughan unprecedented digital transformation.
Banks compete with technology companies;
technology companies compete with banks.

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Attracting digital talent
Modernize your workspaces with a wide array ofinnovative devices and experiences. We provide
cutting-edge technology, from the pocket to thecloud, comprising smart IoT devices, mixed reality
headsets, powerful tablets, mobile workstations,and more.

Enabling hybrid work anddigital collaboration

There’s a heightened demand for online Financial Services,and work-from-home is an attractive incentive. Central banks
around the globe are considering throwing their weight behind
digital currencies and modernizing their payment systems.1
In this time of transformation, modernization, security,and compliance are more essential than ever.

Boost your workforce productivity by providing
greater flexibility, so people can easily work fromanywhere. We support you with enterprise-levelsecurity for distributed networks and devices;cloud-based management; and infrastructure
modernization, such as private or hybrid cloud.

Supporting digital banking initiatives
Products, solutions, and trust
Lenovo is a trusted provider at some of theworld’s largest financial institutions, bringing
a wealth of expertise to bear on the challenges
facing the sector. Together with our partners,
we’re creating products and solutions to enable
the transformation while maintaining or
increasing security for financial institutions
and their customers.

While security remains a must-have, financial
institutions face the challenge of providing
innovative new digital services while modernizing
their infrastructure and core applications in acompliant manner. As the largest global end-toend provider of devices, systems, solutions,and services in the industry, Lenovo is helping
in a number of ways.

Deliver your customers outstanding, connected
experiences to deepen relationships and cement
their brand loyalty. We provide solutions such as AI,
High Performance Computing, cloud migration andmanaged services to accelerate your transformation
into a bank of the future.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

Lenovo is a
US$70 billion
revenue global technology powerhouse

Ranked #171

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Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all,
Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company
by further expanding into key growth areas including server,
storage, mobile, solutions and services.
This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing
innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, andsustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere.

in the Fortune Global 500

Employing
82,000people around the world, and serving millionsof customers every day in 180 markets

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migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

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Cyber security:
predict and prevent
Ramping up response to threats

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

It’s not a caseof if, but when
As the financial sector’s move into thedigital sphere increases, so does the threatof cyberattacks. The disruption caused bythese malicious actors can negatively impact
the global financial system, financial stability,
and confidence in the integrity of the system.

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In 2023, the cost of
cyber-attacks is expected to hit$8 trillion
That’s$255,000

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By the end of 2025,
the financial damage
caused by cyber-attacks
is expected to reach$10.5 trillion
annually—up from $6t in 2021 2

per second

Maintaining service availability in the faceof constant threats is a major challenge.
This challenge is exacerbated by themarket’s demand for innovation andlimited resources for security.

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malware attacks target Financial Services
firms, at an average cost per company of$18.3m2

The financial and reputational cost of failure
can be huge and far-reaching. However, theabsence of an immediate problem can leadto a false sense of security, resulting in alack of urgency to implement preventative
measures. The unfounded belief that security
slows down both IT teams and end users
often contributes to a reluctance to wholly
embrace protection.

On the contrary, the stronger the security
you have, the smoother your disruptionproof business runs, and therefore, thehappier and more satisfied yourcustomers and stakeholders feel.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

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3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Prevention is always better than cure
Lenovo resolves these conflicts by implementing a multi-layered
protection solution. Lenovo’s ThinkShield is a comprehensive,customizable, and modular end-to-end security solution. Lenovo
helps customers select the features/components that make iteasier for admins to manage security and users to work securely
and seamlessly. From a secure supply chain, through products
secured by design, to partnership with the industry’s most trusted
security providers, ThinkShield lays a solid base of protection.
With its partner ecosystem and intuitive AI, Lenovo detects
network threats and errors before they can impact anyone. It
also analyzes and assesses any potential weaknesses in yourinfrastructure that might give cyber criminals a window ofopportunity. In addition, it’s scalable, adapting as new security
trends and loopholes emerge, always putting you perpetually
one step ahead.

Enhanced endpoint protection
Microsoft and Lenovo have a long-establishedpartnership, and endpoint protection isenhanced by Windows 11 on Lenovo. It’s
the most secure version of Windows yet. It
enables hybrid work with powerful out-of-thebox protection, including enhanced phishingsafeguards, password-free security, and more
control over apps and access anywhere.

Thinking ahead: backup and disaster recovery
The need to protect data whether it’s at the edge, in the
datacenter, or in the cloud adds complexity to backup and data
management architecture. Traditional backup solutions designed
to safeguard on-premises data cannot deliver comprehensive
data protection across hybrid, multi-cloud environments andapplications, putting data at risk and costing time, resources,
and money. Lenovo offers industry-leading backup and disasterrecovery solutions to mitigate the risks of data loss and downtime.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

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Risk andCompliances:
Meeting the digital challenge

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Financial Services?

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migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Translating security
regulation for the cloud
Many Financial Services regulations were
designed before the widespread adoptionof cloud computing (PCI DSS dates to 2006,
for example), and they don’t define exactly
how to protect workloads in the cloud.
Interpreting the rules and applying them
to cloud environments is an exercise that
regulators leave to individual businesses.

Harnessing technology to stayon the right side of regulations

This means that achieving compliance requires
the ability to translate security regulations thatwere conceived in the pre-cloud era into a cloudsecurity strategy.

RegTech is more than just an enhanced version of current
risk and compliance solutions. It uses cloud technology
to deliver solutions involving machine learning, bigdata analytics, and natural language processors toaggregate and analyze bank data and to detect, predict,and mitigate risks to the organization. It helps financial
institutions become more competitive by providing
sustainable and efficient solutions that automate theprocesses used to meet regulatory expectations.

Data security has always been paramount in Financial
Services; now ‘regulatory technology’, or RegTech,is emerging as a prime driver in compliancemanagement strategy.
As a trending financial technology subset, RegTech
integrates AI and machine learning (ML) to automate
regulatory compliance.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

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monitor and manage

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migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Stay up to date, stay secure
The critical success factor for RegTech is technology
currency throughout the entire stack.
Lenovo PCs offer full-disk encryption, remote-wipe
capability, remote out-of-band management, andTrusted Platform Module chips dedicated to securing
hardware. Lenovo’s digital workplace solutions keep
endpoints up to data with BIOS, operating system,
security and application patches delivered over theInternet. This way, endpoints are kept up to the mostcurrent security standard and can prevent compromiseby day-zero attacks in a reliably reportable manner.

Best-in-class data protection
Lenovo’s best-in-class data protection solutions deliverintelligent data management across diverse hybrid
cloud environments and workloads; streamlined
and simplified data protection with automationand orchestration; improved data availability andaccelerated application performance; and reduced
infrastructure costs. We can ensure regulatorycompliance, and data protection, wherever andwhenever employees work.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

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Cloud security:
migrate and maximize
The journey to the cloud isjust the beginning

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Introduction

1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Financial cloud dataprotection is crucial
Financial Services organizations face unique challenges
in securing data and applications in the cloud, but
resisting cloud migration is no longer an option.
From 2019 to 2022, the average number of public cloud services
utilized by Financial Services organizations increased by over 50%.
Although the Financial Services industry stores a similar amountof sensitive data in the public cloud as other sectors (61%),
it skews toward storing more confidential internal information,such as employee records and payment card information.3

Achieve your cloud goals withoutcompromising protection
If you’re planning your journey to the cloud, your strategy must
address the top cloud security challenges, including ransomware,phishing and compliance.
Lenovo helps customers confidently accelerate their cloudtransformation by delivering a managed service approach
along the end-to-end cloud lifecycle. We offer the expertise
to design the best hybrid or multi-cloud strategy for yourbusiness needs, secure and rapid data migration and manage
everything as a service.

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Introduction

1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

We offer:

Private cloudMulti-cloudHybrid cloud• Manage a dedicated pool of IT resources withcloud delivery capabilities• Utilize more than one cloud environment tovarying degrees• Scalability and self-service while retaining control• Leverage multiple cloud environments withspecialized capabilities to better align withrequirements and business objectives• Allows for multiple sources of IT infrastructure
operated with an integrated software platformthat spans these environments• Choose where and how IT resources are deployed• Combine on-premises private and off- premises
provider infrastructure for scalability

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Introduction

1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Make the right choice for your business, and cloud computing
can unleash potential, enable innovation, and deliver previously
unimaginable flexibility and agility. Whatever you decide,
Lenovo cloud solutions offer security, scalability, and agility.

Practical steps forward
Public cloud platforms have enterprise-grade featuresand options. The key is knowing which ones to use
in the right combination or configuration.
Best practice is to identify the ideal architecture
for a low-risk service, migrate and test it, and theniterate again for increasingly high-value andhigh-volume services.
Lenovo professional services can help with cloudservice design, configuration and testing. Lenovo
cloud infrastructure products also help customers
access cloud features in private or hybrid architectures.

End-to-end storage and data
management solutions

Manage your hybrid workforce
through the cloud

Lenovo’s industry-leading, scalable end-to-end
storage and data management solutions help you:

Windows 11 works with cloud tools to help manage
your hybrid workforce. From zero-touch device
deployment and policy management to updates,
secure single sign on, and remote help, you havethe control and flexibility to support employees
and their devices anywhere.1,2• Accelerate application performance to deliver
faster results• Simplify data management across hybrid,
multi-cloud environments and workloads• Optimize data protection and management
to reduce costs and increase ROI

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

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Conclusion:
The right partners,
the right choices
Maintaining integrity, building trust16

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

2: Cyber security: predict andprevent for Lenovo 360

3: Risk and Compliance:
monitor and manage

4: Cloud security:
migrate and maximize

5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Nobody does digitaltransformation alone.
As a global supply chain leader, Lenovo understands
that it takes an ecosystem working in concert to deliver
superior outcomes for customers. So, Lenovo’s productand solution portfolio includes components from market
leaders in AI, public cloud, productivity, security anddevice management categories, among others.

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1: Why Lenovo in
Financial Services?

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5: Conclusion: Making
the right choices

Lenovo delivers added value by combining its own and third-party
products and services into solutions that deliver businessoutcomes in an optimized commercial model. For Financial
services institutions, this means not just financing, but theflexibility to change consumption (and cost) in response to
demand across all product categories.
It also means an opportunity to spotlight another crucial area.
Sustainability is of growing importance to customers, employees,
shareholders and the wider community. Taking responsibility foractions that affect the planet includes ensuring that partners
and suppliers can be trusted to help deliver a greener future.

Environmentally conscious products, solutions,and services
Lenovo is recognized as one of the world’s most sustainable
companies, with a number of environmentally friendly programsin place. These include aggressive greenhouse gas emissions
reduction goals for 2030.
Beyond limiting its own emissions, Lenovo is focused on increasing thesustainability of its packaging and products. Since 2008, Lenovo has
eliminated 3,240 metric tons of packaging consumption by weight.
Lenovo devices are characterized by their energy-efficient design
and build, use of recycled materials and packaging, and end-toend lifecycle management for a circular economy. Lenovo’s partner
ecosystem enables rapid delivery of custom solutions direct tousers, minimizing transport costs and CO2 emissions.
All of this underlines the company’s continued efforts to secure
not only data, but a better future for everyone.

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3. https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99654-financial-services-industry-sees-rise-in-public-cloud-storage