The securities market is more vulnerable to cyberattacks than other financial sector segments, new analysis shows. Security market infrastructure is at higher risk of cyberattack than banks, forex markets, trade finance companies. The researchers assessed factors such as transactional and operational complexity, maturity of manual and automated processes, the maturity of regulatory oversight, and the availability of mutual checks and balances for catching errant behavior. Most of the threat activity to date has been in the bank and payment system space, says Pat Antonacci.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/securities-markets-at-high-risk-of-cyberattack