In this excerpt from Kate Fazzini's new book 'Kingdom of Lies,' she takes you directly inside the security operations center of one of the world's largest banks just as the company is about to be hit by a cyberattack. The bank has recently seen a huge bump in its cybersecurity budget following high-profile attacks sponsored by Iran in the previous years.
In this excerpt from Kate Fazzini's new book "Kingdom of Lies," she takes you directly inside the security operations center of one of the world's largest banks, just as the company is about to be hit by a cyberattack.
In 2012 and 2013, Iranian sponsored distributed denial of service attacks that took down the websites of several prominent banks, including NOW Bank, one of the world's largest. They've moved or hired new security employees, about 30 in all, from "back-office" locations across the tri-state area, to staff the new space.
For some of the team members, it's an exciting change, getting noticed, coming to work at the corporate headquarters, where everyone dresses well and market-moving business decisions happen. It's exciting. For others, being on the front-burner just feels like another burner. The north wall is made up of 100 square feet of electrochromic glass. The analysts call this the fog wall. It has been constructed using a five-layer sandwich of ultra-thin glass and polymer layers, the middle layer being a separator with rows of thin, clear, invisible electrodes on either side.
Bankers will talk to these power players in the sober confines of the walnut and forest-green atrium just outside the SOC. The location — headquarters — implies significance. The blinking and blooping screens imply an LA-approved version of what it means to be high-tech. The hidden door, the lithium ion curtain – a little clandestine touch.
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