As financial services increasingly embrace SaaS and cloud-based technologies, they face emerging threats to safeguard sensitive customer data. While comprehensive IT security measures are essential, the active involvement of employees across organisations is pivotal in ensuring the protection of sensitive data. In this insightful discussion, FStech editor Jonathan Easton engages with Rich Vibert, co-founder and CEO of Metomic, to delve into strategies empowering financial firms to encourage their employees to champion robust data security. The conversation explores the synergy between technology and human involvement to establish a human-centric approach to data security, ultimately enhancing the most powerful and scalable prevention mechanism: the employees. Rich sheds light on the advantages of achieving clear visibility, discovery, and classification of risks, coupled with the implementation of automated security policies. This approach enables the human firewall, fortifying financial services firms with a defence-in-depth data security strategy. This conversation was originally recorded as a video interview, which can be watched in full on the FStech website.