John Carbo is the Director of Information Security at Abacus Group, an IT service provider for alternative investment firms. John has spent his entire career in the financial services industry, working previously for large banks where he gained experience in security and system integration. He’s currently a Cybersecurity Fellow at NYU, in partnership with the NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Research and Cyber Operations. John holds various information security and privacy certifications, including CISSP, CSSP, CSAE, CIPP/E and CIPM.
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness month, and with seventy percent of financial companies having suffered a cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months, it’s crucial for firms to not only know their biggest cyber risks but how to prevent them.
