Corporate security and crisis management

Preventative security measures

Our Corporate Security and Business Continuity Management (BCM)/Crisis Management (CM) programs cover all measures world-wide which serve to take precautions against and manage potential crises and incidents, protect employees, infrastructure, processes and information, and maintain and/or recover business operations.

This includes strategic plans that can be implemented in the event of possible terrorist attacks or natural disasters, building protection, the prevention of dangers or fraudulent activities and a central service for the analysis and investigation of IT security incidents.


The focus

Business Continuity Management (BCM)
  • Global risk-based process resumption strategy for Deutsche Bank businesses and infrastructure areas (i.e., terrorist attacks, natural disasters, etc.)
Crisis Management (CM)
  • Exercises for modular global testing of CM capability and verification of recovery strategy
Protection Group (PG)
  • Global, full-scale protection for Board and GEC members
  • Protection of events
  • Building protection program
Anti-Fraud Unit (AFU)
  • Anti-Fraud program focused on detection and prevention of external fraud and fraudulent activities
  • Intelligence collection and analyses related to fraud

Protective Intelligence
  • Collection and analysis of indications and trends relating to threats to employees, information, and infrastructure
  • Technical inquiries
  • Assistance with the development of risk scenarios
  • Identification of weak points and development of countermeasures
dbCERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
  • Certification process for users and systems in compliance with Deutsche Bank standards
  • Protection against network intrusion, attacks, or infection with computer viruses or malware
  • Introduction of countermeasures in the event of a severe threat to the IT infrastructure

Last Update: 27/5/2010
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