Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Cybersecurity and financial services: tackling identity challenges for better online protection

09 Dec 2022

As an industry, financial services are significantly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The Bank of England recently surveyed executives in the UK financial sector, finding that a staggering three-quarters (74%) deemed a cyber-attack to be the highest risk to the financial sector in both the short and long term, followed closely by inflation or a geo-po...

Information Security

The allure of fraud – and how to protect against it

31 Aug 2022

2022 has so far seen an insatiable appetite for stories of fraud. From ‘The Tinder Swindler’ Simon Leviev fooling potential love interests into giving him millions of dollars to escape his "enemies”, to con artist Anna Delvey winning the hearts and purses of New York’s social elite in ‘Inventing Anna’, fraud has become the most popular topic ...

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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Out of office, home and away, moving up, moving on; when security goes AWOL

28 Jun 2022

The financial services industry has one of the highest rates of insider data breaches, costing on average $21.25 million in the past year alone. Whether it’s an employee acting with malicious intent, or through accidental data mishandling, staff have access to sensitive information and systems that make them a constant vulnerability. And this thr...