London,
UK -- Mr. Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders and Knightmare
on Wall Street, is addressing senior executives from the United
Kingdom and Europe at 3-Day Masterclass Cybersecurity organized by
Terrapinn Training. Perez is a well-known international futurist and
keynote speaker who currently offers Cybersecurity
Due Diligence and Awareness Training services for
Fortune 500 firms and private equity groups.
As
information technology becomes ever more complex and Internet usage
increasingly widespread, cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly
important and business-critical field. Unfortunately, most
organizations are not prepared to handle cybersecurity threats. In
fact, 66% of IT and security professionals say that their firms are
unprepared to recover from a cyberattack. A key example of this
unpreparedness is the fact that many of the companies impacted by the
recent WannaCry attack didn't install critical updates into their
Windows infrastructure that had been released by Microsoft back in
March.
Perez's
workshops bring CEOs, board members and top executives up to speed on
the most recent and battle-tested approaches to protect their
companies' valuable information and intellectual property from prying
eyes of hackers and competitors, and leverage their cyber success in
both cultivating stronger relationships with current and new clients
and safeguarding the interests of all stakeholders, partners and
employees.
Perez,
author of Knightmare
on Wall Street and The
Speed Traders, is a recognized futurist, keynote
speaker and director of programs targeted at board members, chief
executive officers and senior executives looking for new ways to gain
and maintain a competitive business advantage.
RECENT
TESTIMONIALS
• "The
team that Edgar has assembled is top-notch. There are no words to
express our satisfaction with your high-quality delivery."
Member of the Board of Directors
• "After
working with a number of vendors, we found your team to be in a
qualitatively different level. By that I speak to your deep expertise
and exemplary professionalism." Divisional Chief Information
Officer
• "Thanks
for the great work training our employees. You really made a
difference!" Global Chief Information Security Officer
• "The
program provides a comprehensive approach for any organization to
lead in cybersecurity readiness." IT Security Coordinator
SPEAKER'S
KEYNOTE TOPICS
• The
Importance of the Cybersecurity Framework for Directors and CEOs
An
email embedded with malware. Security systems hacked by thieves.
Credit card numbers stolen from store purchases. There's certainly no
shortage of examples when it comes to data security breaches and the
havoc they wreak on business. No wonder then that nearly a third of
CEOs in KPMG's latest global survey identified cyber security as the
issue having the biggest impact on their companies today. Every
organization should apply a Cybersecurity Framework for analyzing
cyber security, and ideally it should be integrated into an
organization's existing enterprise risk framework. The key is making
it part of the mainstream of risk management within an organization.
The most innovative companies today have recognized that cyber
security is a customer experience and revenue opportunity, not just a
risk that needs to be managed. Mr. Perez will explain why this must
done across the entire organization and why the CEO and Board of
Directors have the most important role to play.
• Finance
in the New Global Economy
Until
quite recently, globalization was seen as a one-way street.
Multinationals, which led the charge four decades or so ago into
growing global markets, were its ambassadors, and American and
European workers, whose wages and upward mobility were flattened,
were feeling left out. The core idea was that globalization,
technological innovation and unfettered free trade would erase
historical and geographic boundaries, making the world ever more
economically interconnected and alike. Developed economies would come
under more and more competitive pressure from eager upstart nations.
Now we are entering a new age of volatility. Financiers will become
less important, manufacturers more so. Blue collar jobs will go high
tech. Robots will replace Chinese workers. Mr. Perez will discuss why
finance stands now in front of its biggest transformation triggered
not by any of the financial conglomerates that dominate the world
today but by obscure startups that could be working already in
garages in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Kiev or Delhi.
• The
Biggest Risks for Financial Markets
Constant
regulatory changes and technological evolution have transformed the
financial landscape so profoundly since the advent of the first
electronic networks in the early 1970s. Regulators around the world
are now in a race to respond to the evolution of technology in
financial markets and prevent its operational challenges from
becoming the biggest risk for financial markets. However, when
considering technology and the cyber landscape, errors are bound to
happen. Financial services firms are expected to have deployed the
most sophisticated defense systems against cyberattacks. Trading
firms are expected to have controls in place and invest in the
technology to keep up to date. Most companies would realize the need
of these investments and honestly attempt to implement them, but
their IT departments would soon hit a wall, because of direct
involvement from senior management and boards of directors.
Compliance actions against those who missed their importance will go
a long way toward restoring investor confidence and limiting the
impact of the biggest risk for financial markets.
• Social
Engineering: The "Weakest Human Link" in Cybersecurity
Social
engineering involves tricking your employees into breaching security
protocols or giving away information, most often over the telephone
or via email. Social engineering exploits human weaknesses rather
than technology, preying upon people's propensity towards trust in
particular. Often, these exploits are used to gather information to
support a more targeted cyberattack, with the initial forays based on
the premise of 'little and often' so as not to cause concern.
Employees at all levels, including senior executives, are vulnerable.
Mr. Perez will explain why by improving employee awareness and
introducing simple technical measures, organizations can protect
themselves against social engineering techniques and the risk of a
cyberattack and its potential impact on business, customers and data.
• Establishing
or Improving a Cybersecurity Program
The
NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which was drafted by the Commerce
Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
comprises leading practices from various standards bodies that have
proved to be successful when implemented, and it also may deliver
regulatory and legal advantages that extend well beyond improved
cybersecurity for organizations that adopt it early. Its adoption may
prove advantageous for businesses across virtually all industries.
Mr. Perez will explain why a proper Cybersecurity Program will build
on the analysis of the possible areas of concern, an understanding of
the company's most critical assets, and a thorough review of
Information Technology's policies and procedures when faced with
cybercrime.
ABOUT
EDGAR PEREZ
Mr.
Edgar Perez is a published author, business consultant for
billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds and Council Member at
the Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global Advisors and Research
International, with subject matter expertise in cyber security,
investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank Act) and market
structure.
He
is author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight
Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The
Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading
Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in
English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in Mandarin by China
Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat,
published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr.
Perez is course director of 3-Day Masterclass Cybersecurity, Longest
Running Cyber Security Business Workshop and 3-Day Masterclass
Quantitative Finance, The World of Quant Finance. He has presented
his workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala
Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He
contributes to The New York Times and China's International Finance
News and Sina Finance.
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Petersburg -
Channel 5, Sina Finance, BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl,
TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business
Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has
been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing,
ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin
Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua,
CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International
Finance News, Finance.QQ.com, hexun.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea
Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9,
iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico,
FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business
Times.
Mr.
Perez has presented to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman
Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT
Summit APAC (Shanghai), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University,
University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Hult
International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New
York), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr.
Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Cyber
Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago),
Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group's Global
Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional
Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis
Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia
(London).
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.
Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance.
Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of
Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master
of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York,
with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer and resides in the New York City area.
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