A majority of U.S. business leaders (owners, managers, and executives) prefer using digital #banking, and yet less than half of them have plans of increasing their use of online banking products and services, that’s according to a JPMorgan Chase survey. The survey, which was released last week, showed that the primary #reason for businesses for […]
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Want to know more about the different types of #authentication? When is it appropriate to use hard tokens v. soft tokens, or is a combination more suitable? To learn more about this, tune in today to the #webinar on soft token authentication from #OneSpan, formerly Vasco, hosted by #Bank #Innovation at 2 PM ET. In […]
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Wells Fargo & Co. has had a very public battle with fraud. Just last month, the bank agreed to pay $ 480 million to settle a lawsuit from investors accusing Well Fargo of securities fraud related to its fake-account scandal from 2011 to 2016 in which 2 million fake accounts were set up. “We have alerting to […]
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Even more than winning on mobile, #banks would like to minimize security threats. Banks lost $ 16.8 billion to fraudsters last year, according to a Javelin report, and the number of U.S. customers victimized by such attacks increased to 16.7 million, up from 15.4 million in 2016. Protecting customers is paramount for executives. A global study […]
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I visited Accenture’s offices in Israel earlier this month and was fascinated by the depth and breadth of expertise concentrated on #cybersecurity. The entire country of Israel is becoming something of a cybersecurity hub, with over 300 cybersecurity startups and more than 30 multi-national companies (including Accenture) opening local R&D centers.
Accenture is actively evaluating and screening these emerging startups and has established partnerships with Israeli universities to identify new areas for research. In 2016, Accenture acquired Maglan, a privately-held Israeli cybersecurity company with a team of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals who honed their skills fighting cybercrime and confronting cyber espionage around the globe. This augments Accenture’s full range of security services and defensive countermeasures.
Later in 2016, Accenture opened its Cybersecurity R&D Lab in Herzliya, Israel. The Lab brings together a constant stream of fresh insights and breakthrough technologies through the Accenture Open Innovation program that collaborates with venture capitalists, start-ups and universities.
Cybersecurity is a top-of-mind concern for executives in banking and other industries, and threats keep evolving. I must admit, however, that after my trip to Israel, I feel more secure, having seen what top players from industry, government, venture capital and academia can accomplish when they work together to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks.
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As data security and usage becomes more of a hot topic for businesses in 2018, #most financial executives are feeling positively #about the #cybersecurity at #their institutions, a report by IBM Resilient found. Of the 2,848 respondents surveyed for the study (released last week, IBM’s third annual on “cyber resilient” organizations), 72% felt their organization …Read More
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EXCLUSIVE—The growth of #synthetic #fraud, or the method by which fraudsters use a combination of real and false details to open malicious accounts, is slowing as lenders, issuers, and consumers all grow more attentive to #cybersecurity methods, a study conducted by credit bureau TransUnion found. The study, released earlier this week, notes that the percentage …Read More
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Last year, regulators in New York decided to take #cybersecurity matters for financial institutions into their own hands, releasing a set of rules (which went into effect in March), requiring #banks and other FIs to establish a stricter cybersecurity program. This includes reporting all kinds of data breaches, ransomware, or phishing attacks, which could potentially harm […]
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David Bowie’s guitarist Carlos Alomar recently described the challenge of playing with a genius who was a musical chameleon throughout his long career. “David Bowie’s music is a moving target. Just when you think you’ve got the bullseye, it shifts.”
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Many #banks could say the same about striking the right balance between delighting customers with frictionless digital experiences and keeping their data safe. As bank business models evolve from walled gardens to having to compete on the open digital savannah, it’s getting harder to strike that balance. Business model changes are creating proliferation in both internal and external points of data exchange. The integration of digital and branch channels; ecosystem platforms that expose APIs to partners; the shift from data centres to cloud storage on third-party servers; and a workforce that increasingly includes a wide array of contractors are just some of the new data interfaces that are being created.
As these points of exchange proliferate, banks increase their information security risk. Criminals are still liable to attack banks because “that’s where the money is”, but bank robbers have been joined in the digital world by angry social media mobs, geo-politically motivated state actors, ‘ethical’ hackers seeking radical information transparency, and many other types of #threats that together have created an information security arms race. It’s no surprise that the target of the hackers in the first season of the hit TV show ‘Mr. Robot’ was banks.
Accenture recently survey 275 security executives to hear their views on the state of #cybersecurity in the #banking industry. The survey showed that most are confident about their ability to protect their assets and their customers from fraud, malware, and a host of other security breaches. Some 78 percent of the executives reported confidence in their cybersecurity strategies, 76 percent said cybersecurity is now embedded in their culture, and a full 93 percent believe their cybersecurity capabilities can protect their customers’ information.
But the survey also indicated that this confidence may be misplaced. Our research found that these same banks face an average of 85 targeted breach attempts per year—a third of which are successful. The stakes are also getting higher, with recent breaches of international payments systems creating multi-billion-dollar downside risks. If banks are to retain their customers’ trust, this gap between the reassurance projected by management and the reality of multiple successful breaches a month needs to be closed—and quickly.
It starts with better threat assessment and a dynamic prioritization of investments against emerging risks. It also means building a strong risk culture and supporting it with appropriate controls and tools that build resilience and defence in depth. Continuous attack simulations from white-hat hackers can also provide valuable insights into the maturity of a bank’s security program and its readiness to parry the continuously evolving set of threats.
Just like David Bowie, cybersecurity threats keep changing and evolving, so the Carlos Alomars of bank information security need to ensure that they can keep up.
To learn more about building better cybersecurity in banking, I invite you to read our High Performance Security report: Solving Banking’s Cybersecurity Conundrum
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Scanning a thumbprint to access your bank account seems completely safe, right? Well, a notorious German hacker names Jan Krisller – a.k.a. Starbug – demonstrated how easy it is to duplicate a fingerprint or even an iris, using a high-res photo. He used Angela Merkel’s photo. Other hacks have foiled fingerprintRead More
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