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The Biggest Challenge: Insider Threats

The Cipher Brief sat down with Steven Grossman, VP of Strategy and Enablement at Bay Dynamics, to discuss the current cyber threat landscape facing the financial sector. According to Grossman, insider threats pose the greatest risk to the global banking industry and that “being able to track, manage, and understand unusual behavior, both on the financial side as well as on the cyber side, is going to be key” moving forward.

The Cipher Brief: What is your assessment of the global banking industry’s current cyber security posture. On average, how well are banks doing at protecting themselves from cyber threats?

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