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Taras Boyko Founder at BTG Corporate Services Provider
In the rapidly evolving landscape of financial technology, the convergence of innovative digital solutions and traditional financial services has presented unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Among the most critical challenges are cybersecurity and data protection, which have become key focal points for fintech companies, financial institu...
02 June 2024 /security
Chris Brown CEO and Executive Coach at New Cyber Executive
Fund management executives and board directors play a crucial role in helping asset management firms navigate cybersecurity. As the financial, operational and reputational costs of cyber risk continue to mount, successful collaboration between fund management executives, cybersecurity executives and the board is essential for effective oversight o...
18 March 2024 /security /regulation
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
In the modern world, more and more businesses are moving online, and with that comes the need for secure online payment processing. Whether you are a small business owner or a large enterprise, it is important to understand how online payment processing works and the best practices for ensuring the security of your transactions. How Online Payment...
12 September 2023 /security /payments
Retired Member
No matter how much emphasis is placed on creating safe passwords, avoiding phishing attempts, and safeguarding sensitive personal data, the risk of account takeover (ATO) fraud remains ever-present. This type of fraud, where criminals brazenly steal account credentials and personal identifiable information, including social security numbers, addre...
02 August 2023 /security /crime
Aare Reintam Chief Operating Officer at CybExer Technologies
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will enter into force on the 17th January 2025. After this point, banks, other financial institutions, and all organisations providing services and products in the financial sector in the EU will be required by law to adhere to the regulation. This includes explicit rules around areas including incide...
19 July 2023 /security
Michael Berman CEO at Ncontracts
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, financial institutions face an ongoing battle to protect their systems and data. That battle extends beyond their own systems and data to those of their critical third-party vendors. Not only must they protect their own systems from cyberattacks, they must also ensure that the third-party vendors...
18 May 2023 /security /crime
Aileen Allkins Chief Revenue Officer at YNV Tech Talent
In 2015, a senior executive at Mattel received an email from the company’s newly appointed CEO. The note requested the processing of an overdue payment to a familiar manufacturer. In acting on the email, the executive set-in motion a $3 million mistake. Cyber attacks of this kind are known as ‘whaling’ emails, which rather than the ‘copy-paste’ met...
04 May 2023 /security /people
Those of us who work in the cyber security industry have been talking about Zero Trust for more than a decade now. During that time, it’s fair to say that the financial services industry has become relatively good at verifying the identity of actors within and outside its dedicated networks. Unfortunately though, while defining best practices for ...
03 May 2023 /security
Ameesh Divatia Co-founder and CEO at Baffle
Data represents both a huge opportunity and a significant risk for companies in the financial services industry. On the one hand, data sharing and analytics can help organizations uncover a wide array of insights that can offer market differentiation, such as customer preferences and intent, marketing opportunities and motivation for more efficien...
24 April 2023 /security
Luke Watts Managing Director at RoundWorks IT
Microsoft Office used to be the only office software that mattered (at least in the business world). Now, Microsoft is working to sideline its traditional office software in favour of its cloud-orientated counterpart Microsoft 365. That in turn is facing serious competition from Google Workspace. If you’re choosing between them, this is what you n...
21 December 2022 /cloud
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