Cyber security is one of the key themes running throughout the ACT Annual Conference on 16-17 May at Manchester Central. Read why you can't afford to miss this essential update and join over 1,000 professionals who are doing exactly that!
Why treasury professionals need to up their cyber security game
The continuing increase in fraud and cybercrime incidents in non-financial companies has raised the bar for cyber security within corporates. With its responsibility for controlling payments – one of the most vulnerable processes to fraud – the corporate treasury is at the very heart of it.
It’s not only the potentially disastrous financial and reputational losses following a fraud incident which require treasury professionals to step up their cyber security game but also recent regulatory changes. Many CEOs and CFOs are now required to sign-off financial technology controls, to take ownership of their department’s cyber security strategy and align it with that of the wider company.
Live hacking demonstration with Jamie Woodruff
Could you be next?
16 May, 16.00 | ACT Annual Conference
He famously hacked Facebook and is convinced he could hack your treasury department as well. Jamie Woodruff, Technical Director at Metrix Cloud, will put the spotlight on the human factor in cyber security and demonstrate how easily people are influenced. Watch his live hacking demonstration and test yourself: how susceptible are you to a potential cyber threat?
Payment fraud - prevention, detection, mitigation
17 May, 11.50 | ACT Annual Conference
Continuing with the theme on day two of the conference, hear our treasury and payments experts discuss the best means to detect, prevent and mitigate payments fraud. Moderated by Peter Matza, the ACT’s Speakers’ Chair, this panel will give you a clearer understanding of the most pressing cyber security issues facing treasury today and the mitigation strategies being deployed to address these threats.
Panellists include:
Helen Emmett, Head UK & EMEA Shared Service Centre, Experian
Jennifer Tinsley, Treasury Director Eurasia, Joy Global
Jonathan Williams, Financial Crime, Data & Security Working Group, Payment Strategy Forum (UK)
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Confidential cyber clinic
Get a tailor-made cyber security prescription for your treasury department with a one-on-one meeting with expert Jamie Woodruff at the conference – it's the ideal opportunity to ask confidential questions about your department’s cyber security issues.
Cyber clinics will run on 16 May from 17.00-18.00 in the exhibition hall at the ACT Thought Centre.
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