Countering Cyber Threats to Financial Institutions

Pierre-Luc Pomerleau is a financial crime executive with over 15 years of experience with three large Canadian financial institutions, and an adjunct professor in the Cybersecurity program at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.David L. Lowery is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel (cyberspace operations officer) and a three-time unit commander now serving as Professor of Homeland Security at Northcentral University, USA.

• Chapter 1: Contemporary Cybersecurity in Our Daily Lives.- Chapter 2: Relevance of Evidence Based Cybersecurity in Guiding the Financial Sector’s & Efforts in Fighting Cybercrime.- Chapter 3: The Evolution of Cybersecurity within the American Financial Sector.- Chapter 4: The Evolution of the Threats to Canadian Financial Institutions, the Actual State of Public and Private Partnerships in Canada.- Chapter 5: Major Themes in the Literature of Cybersecurity and Public-Private Partnerships; A Focus on Financial Institutions.- Chapter 6: Research Findings; Contemporary Perceptions of Canadian Security Professionals Regarding the Challenges in Sharing Information with the Public Sector.- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Implications for Practice and Future Studies on Public-Private Partnerships.