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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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Today In Payments: Mastercard’s Cyber Secure Helps Fight Cyber Fraud; Amazon Focuses On Fulfillment After Record Quarter

PYMNTS

In today’s top news, Mastercard reveals its AI tool Cyber Secure to help banks fight cyber breaches, and Amazon reported record-setting earnings. Mastercard’s Cyber Secure Uses AI to Help Banks Fight Cyber Fraud. Likewise, Alphabet reported a strong Q3, thanks in large part to renewed consumer spend.

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Big data analytics and cybersecurity take center-stage in payments systems

Accenture

Sibos 2015 in Singapore brought them into sharp focus – specifically: Big Data Analytics, Cyber-security, Bank & FinTech Hubs, Cryptocurrencies/Blockchain Technology, Trade Finance and APIs. Some big themes dominate Payments today, and each is likely to endure for many years. Read more.

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Bitcoin Daily: Australia’s RMIT To Offer Grad Certificates In Blockchain Business, Cybersecurity

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The Graduate Certificate in Blockchain-Enabled Business and the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security will provide students with the skills that they need in emerging areas of expertise, per the report. The findings also noted that 84 percent of tech-aware leaders foresaw applying blockchain technology to their companies.

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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

PYMNTS

Additionally, Kellerman called for a tax credit to encourage firms in the financial vertical to set aside 10 percent of their information technology (IT) budgets at a minimum toward cybersecurity.

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

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FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and fraud prevention through cybersecurity.

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Global Security Officials Meet To Discuss 5G Security

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Representatives from a number of countries around the world – excluding Russia, China and representatives from technology giant Huawei – met to discuss the security of 5G networks as many countries prepare for deployment of the technology, according to a report by Reuters.

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