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Report identifies 600 mobile apps for banking and examines the risk of Trojans targeting them

Zimperium – a mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments – has published new research detailing the increasing risk financial institutions and consumers worldwide face due to Trojan horse malware targeting mobile applications. This new report titled, Mobile Banking Heists: The Global Economic Threat, examines more than 600 financial apps – which account for more than 1 […]


How much is enough? How to build a targeted and sustainable cybersecurity budget

Ensuring cybersecurity investments align with the business’ goals is a key element of success, however, managing the two simultaneously can be extremely challenging. Kev Eley, Vice President Sales, Europe at LogRhythm, explores what the right amount of cybersecurity is in order to mitigate priority risks and offers his best practice advice for achieving a targeted […]


Strengthening resilience and enabling innovation

Lloyds Banking Group has reinforced its defences against sophisticated phishing attacks while improving resilience. Intelligent CISO spoke with Paul Branley, Deputy CISO, Lloyds Banking Group, to find out more about the threats facing the organisation and how Garrison is helping to keep it secure both now and into the future. Can you introduce yourself and […]


Why incident response and insurance must learn to be bedfellows

Dominic Trott, UK Product Manager, Orange Cyberdefense, tells us why maintaining a good understanding of your security posture is paramount, as well as the factors which contribute to a defence-in-depth approach to cybersecurity – an approach he refers to as one that offers ‘the most effective protection against cyberattacks’. The history books will no doubt […]


Auto and General Southeast Asia enhances cloud infrastructure security

Auto & General Southeast Asia has enhanced security of its cloud infrastructure by deploying Rackspace Managed Services on Cloudflare. Rackspace Technology, a leading end-to-end, multi-cloud technology solutions company, has announced insurance solution provider Auto & General Southeast Asia (SEA) increased site speed by 60%, optimized application performance and enhanced security of its cloud infrastructure by […]


Eight guiding principles for Zero Trust in banking and financial services today

Security leaders will be familiar with the term ‘Zero Trust’ – an approach crucial as vulnerabilities and attacks are becoming more damaging to organisations. Hila Meller, BT Vice President Security, Americas, EMEA and APAC, discusses some of the guiding principles for Zero Trust in banking and financial services. When it comes to adopting a Zero […]


Study finds fraud and cyberthreats are a growing menace to financial institutions

An IBM study finds broad differences in geographical, generational impact of financial fraud and attitudes toward financial institutions. According to a new report commissioned by IBM, geographies and generations differ greatly in the frequency and impact of financial fraud, as well as their attitudes toward fraud detection and the institutions responsible for protecting them from […]


ABN AMRO Bank signs to extend partnership on the Temenos Banking Cloud

Dutch banking giant, ABN AMRO Bank has signed a multi-year subscription extension with Temenos to support customer growth and business expansion on the Temenos Banking Cloud. The extended agreement includes access to Temenos Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service for the bank’s 22 DevOps teams.  ABN AMRO Bank is a long-standing customer of Temenos, running its international corporate banking, […]


UK credit card fraud rate jumps to five-year high 

Credit card application fraud hit a five-year high in the last three months of 2021, new Experian insight reveals.  Latest data from the National Fraud Hunter Prevention Service, analysed by Experian, found the detected fraud rate for cards rose by 42% between October and December 2021, when compared to the previous quarter – the highest […]


Financial services decision-makers believe hybrid work environments will bring a host of business benefits  

Riverbed | Aternity has released research revealing financial services (FS) decision-makers see permanent hybrid working models as the future, but still aren’t technologically prepared to support the model. Key findings show that investing in better visibility for network and application performance (51%), cybersecurity technology (47%) and digital experience management (40%) are top priorities for business decision-makers […]


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