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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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How To Celebrate Emoji Day

PYMNTS

This gives hackers something of a leg up – with reasonable access to a targets social media generator and a random number generator, accounts can be forced open. “Five years ago, it would have taken a day or so to break a five-digit password,” Knight says. “Now, they can do it in a few hours.”

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Top 5 Analytics Posts: Explainable AI and Machine Learning

FICO

Here were the top 5 posts of 2017 in the Analytics & Optimization category: How to Build Credit Risk Models Using AI and Machine Learning. They’re focused on using many types of alternative data, such as information gleaned from social media, to deduce credit risk. Enterprises: Lax cyber security?

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g., To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g.,

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g., To bring us back down to Fintech and cyber security, my main point is that *privacy* and *personal data* could be sacred in one context (e.g.,

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NTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety

PYMNTS

We have to regulate how to use it in the future. When FindFace was finally smart enough to go public, it launched in 2016 as a tool for young urbanites to identify one another in public and connect later on social media, rather than approach someone at random on the train. It already exists,” Ivanov said.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. FFIEC’s Cyber Security Self-Assessment Tool. Freudian Slip Award.