PROTECT YOUR DATA!

摘要

If you are in the futures business and haven't taken steps - or taken the right steps - to minimize the threat of cyber attacks, consider yourself warned. If you think you're off the hook because your trading and clearing systems are not Internet facing, think again. Those systems may be less vulnerable, but they are still susceptible to targeted attacks. Even the U.S. military's secret intranet system, called the SIPRNet, was successfully attacked with infected thumb drives. This past March at a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) roundtable, Chairman Timothy Massad said, "Cyber security is the most important single issue facing our markets today." The CFTC now requires clearinghouses and exchanges to maintain system safeguards and risk management programs. Massad emphasized that the CFTC has made this a priority in examinations.