Financial advisors face cyber security threat

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans There is a new nightmare facing financial advisors – and it’s come in the form of cyber security. That is the verdict of Mary Jo White, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the USA. She believes that not…

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How experts track global cyber criminals

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If President Barack Obama was correct when he blamed the 2014 Sony Pictures cyber attack on the North Korean government, then Pyongyang was also likely responsible for the recent digital assaults on banks using the Swift network. But the president might…

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Reform cyber laws, says UK hacker Lauri Love

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A British hacker facing decades in a US prison has called for reforms to cyber crime laws and issues of jurisdiction after waiting two years for details of allegations against him. Lauri Love, a student from Sussex, has been arrested twice…

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New strategies to combat cyber attacks, from LogRhythm

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Some SMEs are are paying lip service to cyber security, opening themselves up to being just another statistic in the malicious cyber crime game. That’s according to Bill Smith, LogRhythm sales and customer relationship manager and Bill Taylor, LogRhythm Asia-Pacific and…

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Moscow supports regular consultations with US on cyber security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Russia plans to discuss with the United States the topic of preventing incidents in cyber space, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large and special presidential representative for issues of international cooperation in the sphere of informational security Andrey Krutskikh…

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InsurTech Futures: Mind the gap — cyber security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Alexandra Foster, head of insurance and strategy, global banking and financial markets, BT, explains why cyber is a huge opportunity. The problem of cyber crime is ubiquitous and the need to build resilient defences is common to every organisation in any…

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Half a million jobs need to be filled in cyber security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Macquarie University and Optus will jointly launch a new $10 million cyber security centre to tackle the critical global shortage of peopletrained to protect information technology and communications systems. Managing director of Optus Business John Paitaridis said about half a million…

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