Eguardian Lanka shed light on emerging cyber security threats to the financial services industry at its ‘Way Forward to Cyber Resilience’ CIO Forum in Colombo recently.
Senior cyber security specialists from the company shed light on how banks and other financial service providers are targeted online by criminals and how more developed markets are working proactively to prevent such crimes.
Cyber security expert Jacob Williams (Jake) delivered the keynote address at the event which was attended by CIOs of some of the country’s leading banking and financial services institutions.
Williams is the founder and principal consultant at Rendition InfoSec and has over a decade experience in secure network design; penetration testing, incident response, forensics, and malware reverse engineering.
Before founding Rendition InfoSec, he worked with various government agencies in various mission-critical information security roles. Williams is also a SANS Institute certified instructor and recognized author.
“It is open, informative discussions like this that will help us all better understand the challenges we face and jointly create a more secure digital world,” said Williams.Regional Security Consultant at Eguardian Lanka, Shihan Annon,“Whatever that can be collected can also be stolen, ransomed or corrupted,” he said.