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Learning from the Financial Sector’s Cybersecurity Regulations
25/07/2017
By Israel Levy, CEO of BUFFERZONE, in Infosecurity Magazine.
Once upon a time, a bank was just a bank, a place where you kept your money until you needed it, and maybe went home with a toaster or a calendar once in a while. Not anymore; today, the bank is a unit in a carefully weaved financial infrastructure; if it falls, others may as well, compromising even business, government, and society as we know it.
That’s the attitude of the US Department of Homeland Security, which is designing cyber-protection regulations for the financial industry. Are banks the only institutions that need such regulations? If a cyber-attack puts 100,000 people out of work for two weeks, is that not as serious a threat to the stability of society as a hacked bank?
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