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Information Security

The risks from Cyber cime - Hacking - Loss of Data Privacy - Identity Theft and other topical threats - can be greatly reduced by implementation of robust IT Security controls ...

Milos Dunjic

Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group

Why Should You Pay Attention to Quantum Computing?

For over a year now, I have been uncovering the secrets of quantum computing, which is an exciting and rather unusual field of informatics. It is somewhat weird and yet extremely fascinating discipline, by being very, very different than anything I have learned or encountered so far in my career, as a software developer and high-tech executive. La...

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Best Ways To Respond To Cyber Attacks On Your Business

Cybercriminals spend their time looking for new ways in which they can bypass security measures. In fact, over half of the people in the Cybercriminals world today believe they've already experienced a breach in their online security. This number is growing at an alarming rate today. While threat intelligence software will be helpful in protecti

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Paul Irvine

Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet

Insane in the Mainframe: Securing against modern threats

Mainframes and their use at modern enterprises are seen by many as outdated legacy IT systems that are becoming more and more obsolete as businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on the cloud. However, these notions are not entirely accurate. In reality, mainframe computing remains alive and well within many infrastructure-critical industrie...

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The Equifax Breach: A debrief

As more and more details emerge in the wake of the Equifax breach, this should provide a perfect period of reflection for many companies, including those in the financial services sector - who still have a lot to learn about the handling of a major breach. With over 145 million Americans affected and reports of execs selling off stock before annou...

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Paul Irvine

Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet

Why should Financial Services organisations automate their threat intelligence

It can often feel like cybercriminals are two steps ahead. The result is that security professionals are constantly creating and updating their security protocols to match the volume of equally sophisticated malware attack vectors being directed at them. This is especially true for cybersecurity in financial institutions, this is in part due to th...

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Paul Irvine

Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet

The 3 questions the financial services industry needs to ask itself regarding GDPR

Businesses around the globe are becoming increasingly data-driven. This is largely due to the expectation of customisation of the user experience. Financial institutions, in particular have been able to use customer data and customisation in order to offer tailored services to their customers, such as loans or insurance, based on recent purchases ...

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James Barret

James Barret Senior Director at Endace: www.endace.com

The Equifax Debacle: An Alarm Bell for Banks?

Watching the Equifax debacle unfold has been a bit like watching a badly written coming of age story - just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. The plot has certainly thickened as it has gone on, and last week, in seven short days we learned of the Apache Struts patch vulnerability neglect through to the latest development in Argentin...

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Paul Dignan

Paul Dignan Global Technical Account Manager at F5 Networks

Are we safe to bank on biometrics?

For financial institutions, the primary goal of digitisation is making banking simpler and more intuitive for customers. Biometric identification has huge potential, offering convenience, simplifying password management and providing a frictionless authentication process. However, combining the desire for ease of use with the need to improve secur...

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Paul Irvine

Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet

Financial services: Reduce the cyber risk from within

Financial services organisations are at an inherently greater risk of cyber attacks due to the sensitive nature of the data they store, and the monetary motivations of cybercriminals, they are keenly aware of the damage that can result from being a victim of a data breach. In 2016, the financial services sector was the most frequently targeted ind...

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Paul Irvine

Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet

The evolution of network security strategies being adopted by the financial services sector.

The rise in popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and a consumer desire to access valuable data on various devices has led to network security becoming increasingly complicated for financial services providers. As financial institutions transition their network security strategies to meet these consumer demands and grant greater individual acc...

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