Swiss Times

  By the Swiss Times Business Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com The most dangerous vulnerability in a modern bank often sits outside the bank entirely. “Your security is now the weakest update in your supplier's pipeline, and the weakest login at your service provider,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO and board advisor. Supply-chain compromise, he argues, has become the defining cyber risk for financial services precisely because the sector runs on a shared, interconnected foundation of third-party technology. “You can outsource the work, but you cannot outsource the accountability. When a supplier is breached, it is your customers, your regulator and your board who feel it.” Why finance is uniquely exposed London points to the structure of modern banking: cloud platforms, payment processors, data providers, software vendors and managed services woven so tightly into operations that they are indistinguishable ...