As information-security threats intensify, organizations risk becoming disoriented – focused more on grappling with complex technology, an explosion of data, increased regulation and a debilitating skills shortage. This is a huge danger, since prompt action is required to interpret an increasingly complex threat horizon, which could place organizations and their goals at risk. By preparing for the unknown, organizations will have the flexibility to withstand unexpected, high-impact security attacks and events. This session will review the top global security threats for 2017 and how organizations can prepare for them.

This session will review ransomware, exploring why it continues, how to battle it and what the future portends. Using real-world examples, this session will walk through some recent ransomware campaigns and discuss new developments in ransomware attacks. How should organizations shore up their defenses and mitigate their risks? And what role, if any, should banking institutions play in ensuring their customers are protected?

Deception is the most successful strategy in military history. Just as armies used deceit to conquer continents, cyber-deception is being used by more and more organizations to exploit a hacker’s greatest weakness – being a human, after all, behind a keyboard. Deception techniques such as honeypots are not a new. But new techniques and capabilities are delivering new approaches to how cyberthreats are dealt with, proactively. During this session, we will deconstruct recent attacks from a hacker’s perspective and show how you can use deception technology to detect stealthy attacks, illuminate network blind spots and minimize breach detection time – highlighting the benefits of deception defenses. But what about when these techniques don’t work as planned? Can deception technology actually create more problems long-term? We will explore the positives and negatives of deception technology.

The landscape of corporate and retail payments across channels such as mobile and online, and across emerging products such as Apple Pay, provide customer convenience and satisfaction. But these new channels and technologies also create opportunities for fraudsters. This session offers lessons learned for creating a robust fraud defense for today and into tomorrow. These best practices will help organizations balance customer expectations with the confidence that fraud risk is being controlled effectively and efficiently.

Highlights for this session include:

• Applying best practices in real-time analytics to stay ahead of fraud in emerging payment channels and new technologies;
• Bringing together financial and non-financial account and customer data with data from multiple access devices to gain more insight into customer behavior and fraud patterns;
• Creating competitive differentiation by improving the customer experience and controlling fraud risk.

Although developed as a core technology underlying the infamous bitcoin, the blockchain ledger mechanism is proving to have a multitude of potential use cases, from IoT micropayments to capital market trading, retail banking and even voting. The bitcoin blockchain is, in effect, a distributed ledger, shared with hundreds of thousands of automated machine auditors all running the bitcoin open source code; they verify the authenticity of every transaction, drastically reducing, if not completely eliminating, fraudulent entries.

Many current transaction mechanisms are vulnerable to fraud, and in this session, we’ll walk through the potential impact of broader blockchain deployment, and review cybersecurity lessons blockchain technology provides for other deployments.