New technologies, new ways of handling funds and new ways how consumers are interacting with money. Financial institutions are at a crossroads of what direction to take.
Crypto currencies, mobile devices, cloud and an increasingly difficult to manage supply chain is forcing a lot of complexity onto the foundations that FinTech has based its successes on. The solid foundation of what is now considered legacy IT has proven its worth but at the same time the status quo is becoming harder to support, manage and secure against today's ever growing threats. Cyber criminals find new and inventive ways of compromising systems, hijacking data and extorting its owners. So where does that leave us in trying to secure the financial world?
This talk will go over a number of topics and challenges that FinTech is dealing with from the perspective of an ethical hacker's view and experience of breaking into FinTech companies for the last decade. What works and what doesn't and what the future might bring.