https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-banks-cybersecurity-1.4916219
The Canadian Press
Nov 22, 2018
Hackers are targeting Toronto-Dominion Bank's internal systems at all
hours using cutting-edge techniques, but the bank's head of cybersecurity
isn't losing sleep over them -- they work for him, after all.
The bank established late last year an in-house "red team" of ethical
hackers -- cybersecurity professionals who attempt to hack a computer
network to test or evaluate its security on the owners' behalf -- who
conduct live attacks against its own networks continuously, said Alex
Lovinger, TD Bank's vice-president of cyber threat management.
"We're doing it exactly how our adversaries would do it ... So if we find
a weakness or something like that, we can close it or address it before a
real attacker," he said.
Canada's biggest banks are fortifying their defences by hiring their own
ethical hackers to test their systems as the frequency and sophistication
of cybercrime increases.
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