In this lightning talk we will review key challenges in securing cloud environments, quickly demo the Wiz approach to addressing some of those key challenges. 

The popular drive to embrace application-based financial services is most hindered by security risk concerns – with financial executives supporting plans to adopt such “open banking,” but raising flags about compliance and security risk. This panel will examine the demand for such offerings, while also assessing techniques to ensure financial organizations don’t leave themselves more vulnerable as they transition.

Join the session to get fresh insights into the reality of ransomware from 5,600 front-line IT professionals, including 444 from financial services, across the globe. You’ll discover what’s changed for financial services organizations over the last year, and where the new challenges lie.  

From wealth management to public accounting, firms that count among their clientele and executives the most wealthy and influential face heightened risk, as cybercriminals increasingly expand their target vectors to more upscale financial institutions or top level financial executives. This session will examine the potential security loopholes that cybercriminals are increasingly seeking out and preying upon to get at the most valuable client and employee data and assets.

Tom Kellermann, SVP of Cyber Strategy for Contrast Security will discuss recent trends of attack against financial institutions and relevant countermeasures.

Automox provides financial services organizations with a comprehensive solution for automating and managing their cybersecurity operations, helping them to protect their networks, data, and reputation. Automox's automated patching capabilities allow financial services organizations to close security gaps in real time without requiring manual intervention. 

From DMARC to behavioral biometrics to the traditional password, financial organizations are struggling to land on an authentication strategy that adequately identifies clients and partners are who they claim to be, while also accommodating growing demand among users for simplicity. This session will assess the evolution of tactics and what works best for financial services organizations that find themselves transitioning rapidly toward digital enablement.

As regulated industries, like financial services, continue a push for greater agility and efficacy, almost all paths involve the cloud. CISOs continue to play a crucial role in ensuring cloud assets operate smoothly and securely, and as the pace of transformation accelerates, security leaders must run even faster to keep up. 

The security landscape for the financial services ecosystem has changed significantly. These changes have come from all angles.  From the way that financial networks are accessed, to the risks and threats they face, to the cybersecurity solution that address both.

Hear DXC's Banking and Capital Markets professional Navjot Singh and Check Point's CISO Pete Nicoletti discuss insights on the threats, challenges, and solutions that are impacting the FiServ industry, now and in the future.