According to the UN, “the outbreak of the pandemic represented a diversified emergency by sectors and by human units. It has had first and foremost medical and health impacts and, secondly, economic, security, social and psychological impacts.” What have we learned...
How To Use Your Company’s Culture to Decrease Risk
Humans are not rational, cultural forces greatly influence how they act. “We deal with a combination of knowledge, values, beliefs, and behaviors. When we think of all that in totality we can use combinations of those elements...
Are You Really Safe From Cybercrime?
One goal - combat cybercrime. FIBA and FELABAN will once again join forces to host the 37th Bank Security Conference - CELAES in Miami on June 20 and 21, 2022. The event focuses on enhancing information-sharing and collaboration across banking and non-banking...
How Can You Resist to The Art of Human Hacking?
“That email from your boss may not be truly from your boss… Nowadays you need to verify before trust. Emails and calls are no longer enough,” said Peter Warmka, a former CIA operative of more than 20 years and founder of the Counterintelligence Institute. According to...
Do Digital Assets Represent the Future of Money?
No longer a fad, digital currencies have been gaining traction over the last decade, and their adoption skyrocketed throughout the pandemic. El Salvador has embraced Bitcoin as a legal tender. The US went from having a president who was “not a fan of Bitcoin” to one...
Cryptocurrency Exchanges & Regulatory Challenge
“With Crypto, you can’t really make a decision six months in advance, because it will be a whole different world in six months,” said Pamela A. Clegg, Vice President of Financial Investigations for CipherTrace, blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency...
Phishing Has Been the Most Used Type of Attack During the Pandemic
“In Latin America, crime migrates, the way the criminal's attack also migrates. Today something might happen in Peru, and then tomorrow it will happen in Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, or Ecuador,” said Jaime Berry, President of the CELAES Committee of the...