FinCyber Today

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Jun 2026

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FinCyber Today is a podcast from FS-ISAC that covers the latest developments in cybersecurity, contemporary risks, financial sector resilience and threat intelligence. Our host Elizabeth Heathfield leads interesting and challenging discussions with our special guests, who bring practical ideas on how to deal with the cyber challenges in the financial sector, improve your cybersecurity response and build resilience in business.

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June 2, 2026Episode 3927 min

Dana Turner: Small Firms, Same Targets: Proactive Security for Community Institutions

Smaller financial institutions face the same threats as their larger peers but have far fewer resources. Yet Dana Turner, the CISO at Nebraska’s Union Bank and Trust, has designed enterprise-grade resilience without enterprise-scale assets, such as multinational cyber range exercises involving 14 infrastructure industries, and an IT inventory of every person, place, and thing in the bank. His approach is the result of years of experience, the knowledge of what matters to his exec team, and a firm belief that threat actors care more about an institution’s exposure than its size.

March 20, 2026Episode 3817 min

Valerie Abend: Where Trust Meets Action: FS-ISAC's Strategic Evolution

FS-ISAC has been at the forefront of the sector’s collective security and resilience for over 25 years. But the threat environment across the financial services ecosystem is changing at an unprecedented rate – and our operating model is evolving in response. Our CEO, Valerie Abend, outlines how our core services are a necessary response to the threat landscape, details our call to collaborative engagement, and explains why FS-ISAC’s mission to advance the cybersecurity and resilience of the global financial system will never change – but the way we achieve it must.

February 17, 2026Episode 3722 min

Patrick Sullivan: Powerful but Unpredictable – What Leaders Should Know About GenAI

GenAI offers outsized opportunity from faster development and broader security coverage, says Patrick Sullivan, VP and CTO at Akamai. It also introduces novel risks by breaking traditional assurance models and opening new attack surfaces. The creative, non-deterministic nature of GenAI forces tough choices between creativity, predictability, and security – but Sullivan says a bedrock of first principles reduces the risk in the sector’s increasingly non-deterministic environment.

January 30, 2026Episode 3611 min

Romano Stasi: Collaboration is the Key to Fighting Cyber Fraud in Italy

Fraud is changing, says Romano Stasi, Managing Director, ABI Labs. More and more, fraudsters don’t break into systems – they trick customers into giving the threat actor access to their data and accounts. Italian banks are responding with investments in customer education, cybersecurity, and AI tools – even funny commercials aimed at potential victims. Still, Stasi believes collaboration within banks and across the ecosystem is necessary to fight fraud.

January 20, 2026Episode 3522 min

Fadwa Rachi: Mastercard’s Well-Oiled Resilience Machine

MasterCard’s definition of resilience is to prepare for – and deliver despite – any local, regional, or global crisis that might arise, says Fadwa Rachi, Director, Head of MasterCard's European Cyber Resilience Centre. Mastercard can execute on that definition because leaders drive an exceptionally proactive culture and because its highly organized response teams – uniting over 30 different departments – take a situationally adaptive approach to communication, deployment, and exercising. Listen in as Fadwa describes how MasterCard’s resilience machine runs.

January 7, 2026Episode 3431 min

Grant Bourzikas: How to Think About the Future of the Internet

As LLMs become the gateway to the internet, agentic AI grows ubiquitous, and the threat landscape evolves faster, CISOs may need to think about security modernization in a new way. Everything from endpoint access to fraud strategies to data localization will be affected, says Grant Bourzikas, Chief Security Officer, Cloudflare. Still, he believes that despite these critical shifts in the financial sector’s digital landscape, the basics will be even more important: contextualized intelligence, core security principles – and common sense.

November 25, 2025Episode 3323 min

Devinder Singh: Building a Culture of Cyber Intel Sharing in APAC

In APAC, cyber defenders are likelier to share tactical threat intel rather than strategic information, often out of fear of suggesting they were breached, says Devinder Singh, Maybank’s CISO. But getting intel out fast – and across borders – is key to the sector's defense. To encourage a culture of trust and collaboration, Singh says APAC cyber teams need to share information on successful defenses, have the option of anonymity, and be sure of their leaders’ and regulators’ support. After all, sharing is a shield, and doing the right thing is often doing the smart thing.

November 6, 2025Episode 3227 min

Jaime Gomez: Prep for Quantum Like It’s Basic Cyber Hygiene – Because It Is

Quantum computing’s threat to cryptography makes many cyber experts in the financial services sector nervous. But Jaime Gomez Garcia, Global Head of Santander's Quantum Threat Program and Chair of Europol's Quantum Safe Financial Forum, thinks stoking anxiety around quantum is the wrong approach. He says cyber leaders should pose quantum resilience as “basic cybersecurity hygiene” — because, in reality, it is — prioritize use cases, and invite risk managers to the conversation. But most importantly, the sector must coordinate its efforts because, as Garcia says, we have to do this together.

June 10, 2025Episode 3116 min

Ariel Weintraub: Ensure Your Supply Chain Continuity – Even Under Pressure

Cybersecurity threats to an institution are no longer limited to the organization themselves, as threat actors launch attacks across the entire supply chain in hopes of disrupting the financial services sector. Managing supply chain risk is top of mind for Ariel Weintraub, Chief Information Security Officer, Aon, who emphasizes that cybersecurity is not a competition, but an opportunity to share best practices and timely information to maintain the resilience of the global financial sector.

June 10, 2025Episode 3012 min

Debbie Janeczek: How to Prepare for the Quantum Revolution

The quantum revolution is coming to the financial sector. Debbie Janeczek, Global Chief Information Security Officer, ING, is preparing for it and says the rest of the sector should, too. She suggests starting with building leadership’s awareness of quantum risks, inventorying algorithms, and developing the skill sets needed for post quantum cryptography. Those moves, among others, will help financial firms be ready when the quantum revolution arrives — and it’s getting closer every day.