http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/040314-cybercrime-280395.html
By Ellen Messmer
Network World
April 03, 2014
Security professionals are playing defense against cybercrime, and often
feel outgunned by tech-savvy hackers and insiders out to steal sensitive
data from within the business. They see a shortage of qualified security
personnel to call on, but also believe that threat-detection tools are
getting better.
Those were sentiments shared today by security experts from two large
financial services companies, Citi and AIG, together with a special agent
of the FBI at a panel discussion at Pace University in New York. When
asked about the kind of things that worry them most, they were quick to
point to the kind of attacks that are hard to stop and the difficulty in
chasing cybercriminals around the globe.
“Zero-day vulnerabilities bringing down the network,” said Bernadette
Gleason, North American eCrime laboratory manager at Citi. Use of zero-day
attacks by cybercriminals give them the advantage because they can exploit
unknown vulnerabilities. “We’ve seen this happen and try to mitigate
against it.”
Like many businesses, Citi applies a defense-in-depth strategy but there’s
also the realization that the financial services industry has to do better
at “consumer awareness” by helping educate the public more about
cybercrime, without confusing people with technical terms, she added.
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