Six-month investigation reveals pension sector exposure to cyber-crime

Professional Adviser carried out an investigation throughout the first six months of 2018, which involved gathering data on the potential exposure of 14 life and pension companies to cyber-criminals, using prevention platform SpyCloud. The data was collected on the same day for each firm, approximately once per month towards the end of each month, though there were occasions when slightly more time went by between measurements - notably between months two and three.  SpyCloud is a service designed to help organisations and individuals protect against the risk of their email accounts b...