Barclays’ cyber chief: try to break your own IT defences

Hacker — Barclays' Nassiokas says banks should test physical IT security

Alexander Campbell
26 Apr 2018

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Vulnerability assessments are good as far as they go, but banks need to go beyond them to use ethical hacking, penetration testing and red-team physical testing, delegates at the OpRisk Asia conference in Singapore heard yesterday (April 25). Theo Nassiokas, Barclays’ director of cyber security for the Asia-Pacific region, warned vulnerability assessments could only be part of a proper cyber risk assessment.

“Ethical hacking – we go way beyond that,” he said. “We don’t just do vulnerability

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