Escalating Cyber Threats to U.S. Financial System Conference 2023 | Empire Startups | 4 May 2023 | Van Metre Hall, George Mason University, 3351 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201, USA

The increasing number of cyber incursions demonstrates the vulnerabilities of digital technologies and an internet that was not created to be a secure network. There are options for overcoming these increasing vulnerabilities and protecting the financial system.

Hear experts discuss current and upcoming issues in cybersecurity and the financial system including:
• Financial system innovation and challenges of cybersecurity
• Geopolitics and national motivations for financial system innovation and development
• Crime and criminal enterprises and the financial system
• Role of multilateral institutions such as the IMF and World Bank
• New web concepts to decentralize and segregate financial system critical infrastructure
• Government initiatives to work with private industry
• More secure software, hardware and systems
• The path to global consensus
• The cybersecurity alternatives that financial services companies are developing

Mason’s College of Engineering and Computing hosts the Center for Assurance Research & Engineering Center (CARE). CARE’s multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity encompasses the fields of technology, policy, business and leadership. Through partnerships with government and private industry, innovative research is translated into practices and policies used in real-world settings. Research includes security for distributed systems, mobile apps/devices, industrial control systems, and new technologies such as networked medical devices, as well as policies development for securing critical infrastructure and guidance for cybersecurity leadership/governance
The Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center is a non-profit organization that brings together financial services professionals, regulators, trade association representatives, consumer group representatives, counsel and advisors to discuss, debate, and advocate in regard to financial technology and cybersecurity issues and their regulation