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The cyber security threat landscape in financial services

Insights on Business

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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FirstBank hired hackers to breach its systems. It took them three years.

American Banker

The bank's chief information security officer shared why it took so long for the hackers to get in, what worked during the exercise and what didn't.

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Are U.S. banks ready for a major ACH outage?

American Banker

In a simulation exercise hosted by the Global Resilience Federation on Tuesday, banks and credit unions tested their ability to withstand an industrywide wiperware attack.

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The Importance Of Cyber War Games For Digital Businesses

PYMNTS

based Immersive Labs for its cyber security war games demonstrates the enduring appeal of that adage. In addition, organizations — those with a long view, at least — have long done cyberthreat assessments, a process centered around checking anti-hacking technology and the credibility of cyberattack response plans.

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NATO taps FS-ISAC to lead cybersecurity exercises

American Banker

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“Humanware” Is the Weak Link in Cyber Defenses

FICO

When FICO hosted the Business Continuity Institute Forum covering the South and East of England at our London offices last month, you might have expected technology to top the agenda. But what dominated the discussion among more than 40 business continuity and cyber security experts was not malware but “humanware” — that is, people.

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Cyber Risk: Businesses Show “Irrational Exuberance”

FICO

Mingyan has been a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 2000, where she has collecting internet-scale data and conducting analytic exercises with it. QuadMetrics’ technology is the basis for FICO ESS, incorporating a combination of large-scale automated data measurement and advanced machine learning techniques.