Understand critical cybersecurity and risk perspectives insights and tools for the leaders of
complex financial systems and markets. This book offers guidance for decision makers and helps
establish a framework for communication between cyber leaders and front-line professionals.
Information is provided to help in the analysis of cyber challenges and choosing between risk
treatment options. Financial cybersecurity is a complex systemic risk challenge that includes
technological and operational elements. The interconnectedness of financial systems and markets
creates dynamic high-risk environments where organizational security is greatly impacted by
the level of security effectiveness of partners counterparties and other external
organizations. The result is a high-risk environment with a growing need for cooperation
between enterprises that are otherwise direct competitors. There is a new normal of continuous
attack pressures that produce unprecedented enterprise threats that must be met with an array
of countermeasures. Financial Cybersecurity Risk Management explores a range of cybersecurity
topics impacting financial enterprises. This includes the threat and vulnerability landscape
confronting the financial sector risk assessment practices and methodologies and
cybersecurity data analytics. Governance perspectives including executive and board
considerations are analyzed as are the appropriate control measures and executive risk
reporting. What You'll Learn Analyze the threat and vulnerability landscape confronting the
financial sector Implement effective technology risk assessment practices and methodologies
Craft strategies to treat observed risks in financial systems Improve the effectiveness of
enterprise cybersecurity capabilities Evaluate critical aspects of cybersecurity governance
including executive and board oversight Identify significant cybersecurity operational
challenges Consider the impact of the cybersecurity mission across the enterprise Leverage
cybersecurity regulatory and industry standards to help manage financial services risks Use
cybersecurity scenarios to measure systemic risks in financial systems environments Apply key
experiences from actual cybersecurity events to develop more robust cybersecurity architectures
Who This Book Is For Decision makers cyber leaders and front-line professionals including:
chief risk officers operational risk officers chief information security officers chief
security officers chief information officers enterprise risk managers cybersecurity
operations directors technology and cybersecurity risk analysts cybersecurity architects and
engineers and compliance officers
