Images of war often include missiles, tanks, and troops. But the next war is likely to include a component invisible to the naked eye. Cyber-attacks can cripple an economy and destabilize a society as effectively as a conventional war – at a fraction of the cost. The recent Equifax hacking incident, impacting nearly 143 million Americans, was not a one-off instance. It was a signal that the world’s financial infrastructure is at constant risk, a point made more poignant by an event that literally put the world at financial risk. [timeless] Imagining the next cyber attack against Financial Infrastructure…
Hackers Infiltrate Important Financial Infrastructure – Preventing The Nightmare
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.