96 Results from 2018, /security
Brandon Li Product Manager at Austreme
Child exploitation is an alarming problem throughout whole world. It particularly threatens the safety of children in developing or underdeveloped countries, where poverty is the biggest cause of child abuse or child sex tourism. Owing to the technology enhancement and increased access to the internet, online child sexual exploitation materials (...
29 May 2018 /security /regulation Financial Services Regulation
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The typical cybercrime victim may not be what they seem. You may initially picture an elderly person, possibly living alone and not very confident when it comes to technology or being able to spot a scam. I bet it would surprise you then to learn that young adults aged 18-25 in the UK are actually the age group who are least aware of cybersecurity ...
21 May 2018 /security /retail Millennial Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Even if you have the best security on your computer network, you might have noticed that you still seem to get hacked…or worse. Ask Equifax. Why is this happening? It’s probably because a member of your staff has made it easy for cyber criminals to get inside. It’s really important that you find out who this person is, and keep in mind…it might be...
18 May 2018 /security
Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group
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...
13 May 2018 /security Information Security
Most small businesses don’t put as much focus on internet security as they probably should. If you are a small business owner or manager, not focusing on internet security could put you in a bad spot. Are you believing the myths about internet security or are you already using best practices? Here’s a few of the most common myths…take a look to se...
11 May 2018 /security
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
10 years after the last financial crisis, a new upheaval in banking It’s been 10 years since the global financial crisis, considered by many to be the worst since the great depression. New regulations like the Banking Act of 2009, the FSA Remunerations Code, Know Your Customer (KYC), accompanied by stress tests, have been put in place in this dec...
04 May 2018 /security /regulation Banking Regulations
Sadra Boutorabi Product Marketing Director at GPayments
Serious efforts have been made to combat against the ever-increasing levels of CNP (card-not-present fraud), which has jumped to record levels (around $14.2 billion annually) in recent years. Anyone that uses a credit card, consumers and vendors alike, is a potential target for this threat. To maximize protection and increase consumer confidence t...
02 May 2018 /security Standards Forum
Need to stand up to cyber security breaches more effectively? Change your posture! An organisation’s ‘security posture’ indicates how robustly they are equipped to avoid, detect and repel cyber threats, based on current information security infrastructure and practices. Given ever-bolder cybercrime, a major review of security posture is now imper...
01 May 2018 /security /regulation
In the new world of open banking, the traditional security walls will come down. Will threats – to data integrity and consumer trust – inevitably go up? Open banking regulations launched in the UK in January 2018. But the underlying technology infrastructure, tasked with delivering the biggest shift ever from traditional bank/customer transactiona...
27 April 2018 /security
Evdokia Kardoulaki Associate Consultant at Capco
Cyber insurance is potentially a huge growth opportunity, but to exploit it profitably firms must identify and quantify cyber risks. The attitude to cyber insurance is changing. This is partly being driven by the increasing awareness of major security breaches. Cyber insurance is now seen as a core element of mainstream business risk managemen
23 April 2018 /security /retail
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