SilverLining Episode 49: Security for Fintech Companies

Guest: Alex Gestin Guest title:  CISO, Riseup Language: English   Abstract The growing number of fintech companies represent a shift in the market from traditional banking &  financing to new models and tools that are empowered by technology. But fintech companies face security challenges - they need to provide customers and financial partners with assurance & security at a level of giant institutes - while being young and small companies. In this episode we spoke with Alex Gestin, CISO for Riseup - about the challenges of Fintech companies and how Riseup builds environments that provide assurance and trust with regulators, consumers and other banks.

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The podcast for Security Architecture Hosted by Moshe Ferber and Ariel Munafo. The world of software development has changed rapidly in the last years due to various factors – Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, CI/CD & DevOps – they all changed the way we build new applications. Young startups today got access to enterprise-grade infrastructure enabling them to produce scalable, robust applications faster and cheaper. But as companies innovate faster, security challenges arise. The security community has not mastered yet the full art of developing software fast, at scale, and secure and variety of companies still struggle to found the right foundation for their security posture. SilverLining podcast was created to help you do just that – find the right combination of people, processes, and technologies to build more secure and reliable services. We will focus on the latest development in infrastructure and software development and talk with people who mastered how to secure those. In each episode, we will host an expert for discussion on the security aspects of new technologies and provide insights, best practices, and knowledge in creating more secure software architecture.