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Cyber security across the financial services
Financial businesses are directly linked to wealth, and the global economic system at large making the sector an attractive target for cybercriminals varying from motivated hackers to state-sponsored campaigns. Financial sectors businesses require advanced cyber security measures in place compared to other industries.
Technological advances have made banking faster and innovative by improving products to consumers. Similar to financial risk management, technical risk management plays a key role in avoiding major disasters. Loss of compliance due to ISO 27001, PCI DSS or related regulations is another security risk to a financial services business.
What are the key security challenges ?
- Safeguarding sensitive information
- Reducing growing risk with modern IT infrastructure
- Balancing cyber security with legacy systems
- Data breach detection, response and recovery
- Ensuring compliance
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
Risk and Controls Self-Assessment (RCA) & Cyber Risk Management
In 2018, FCA came up with major findings after conducting multi-firm review on wholesale banks and asset management . Most of the firms reviewed relied on risk and controls self-assessment (RCSA) without getting involved in in-depth technical exercises to assess the accuracy, scale and nature of risks. The main findings raised valid questions around the following:
- How well Board and Senior Management’s decision making is impacted by the understanding of cyber risk profile?
- Are firms taking a proactive approach towards cyber security to ensure it’s an organisation-wide priority?
- How effective is second line (CISO, CXOs) in identifying and managing cyber risks?
- Have firms drawn connections between cyber and conduct risk?
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What are your key security questions?
- Are you seeking in-depth technical assurance after RCA?
- Are you adopting proactive approach to cyber security?
- Are you performing independent technical evaluation before deployment at scale?
- How do process and store sensitive data?
- Have you assessed internal systems and controls to handle insider threats?
- Are we assessing security vendor risks?
Financial Sector Experience
This section refers to specific project based experiences in this sector. These were conducted at retail and investment banks, private equity firms, wealth management institutions, M&A due diligence and Tier 2 businesses.
Key Projects
- High Risk Platforms – FIX, Futures Trading Applications, Gateways, Investment Banking products, Mobile and Corporate Banking Solution
- Connect Direct, Message Queuing, and Back-end Infrastructure Assessments
- Regulatory Requirements i.e. Banking Associations of Singapore, FCA, PCI DSS
- Estate wide SAP Implementation Security Reviews
- Big Data Security Assessments
- BTP (Banking Transformation Programme) Security Reviews
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Network & Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Protect your business against evolving network & infrastructure threats
- Check services, patching, passwords, configurations & hardening issues
- Internal, external, network segregation & device reviews
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
- Helps shape IT strategy & investments
Web Application & API Pen Testing
- Assess real-world threats to web applications
- Validate secure design best practices against OWASP Top 10
- Timely check to avoid common pitfalls during development
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
Mobile Penetration Testing
- Assess real-world mobile app security vulnerabilities
- Validate secure design & configuration best practices
- Increased flexibility and productivity of users through secure mobile offerings
- Ensure strong mobile app authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Find mobile app or device loopholes to avoid data leakage or theft
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Compliance Support
Cloud Penetration Testing
- Better visibility on cloud process aligning
- Secure validation of internal and third party integrations
- Support ever changing regulatory/compliance requirements
- Ensure strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
- Demonstrate data security commitment
- Less is more – reduced costs, servers and staff
Digital Attack Surface Analysis
- Attack surface analysis to identify high risk areas and blind spots
- Improve your security team’s efficiency
- Streamline your IT spends
- Lower Risks and Likelihood of Data Breaches
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