Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Cities worldwide consume ~66% of global energy, account for ~3/4th of GHG emissions, and host over a billion people in informal settlements with barely enough to survive. This underlines the need to create sustainable, connected, and inclusive urban areas that offer a decent quality of life, since by 2050, 7 out of 10 people globally are estimated to live in such regions.

Businesses are at risk of cyberattacks every day. Without careful scrutiny, these threats result in data loss, financial loss, and reputational damage. A comprehensive risk assessment enables the identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities in advance. This guide leads you through the process of performing a risk assessment, defining pain points with workable solutions, and provides you with security tools to improve your overall security posture.

Fintech security refers to the protocols, technical controls, and tailored policies that protect financial technology systems, software, and customer data from cyber threats. It ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability across digital financial services through systems designed to prevent fraud, protect transactions, and detect security events before they cause irreversible harm.

The real risk in M&A isn’t hidden. It’s just inconvenient to surface. Everyone’s pushing for closure. Security gets boxed into a checklist, technical debt gets rebranded as “Post acquisition planning,” and the systems you’re about to inherit stay largely unchallenged until it’s too late.

The future of security isn’t speed; it’s strategy. Cybersecurity in 2025 is caught in a paradox: the tools are getting faster, but the threats are getting smarter. With 5.3 vulnerabilities discovered every minute across thousands of assets, organizations aren’t short on data; they’re overwhelmed by it. But volume isn’t the headline.

For many cybersecurity teams, Nessus is the scanner they started with; a reliable, battle-tested tool that’s been part of the security stack for over two decades. Backed by Tenable’s extensive vulnerability database, Nessus is known for its accuracy in identifying known CVEs and misconfigurations across networks and systems. But while environments have evolved from on-prem to multi-cloud, from VMs to containers, Nessus has primarily stayed the same.

Fintech CTOs aren’t short on tools; they’re short on the right ones. Between fast-moving DevOps pipelines, open banking integrations, and cloud-native architectures, security often lags behind innovation, not due to negligence, but because traditional tooling fails to keep up. Modern fintech threats like API abuse, IAM misconfigurations, and privilege escalations don’t wait for quarterly audits. They exploit real-time gaps between development and security operations.

Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a structured framework for continuously assessing, prioritizing, validating, and remediating vulnerabilities across an organization’s attack surface, enabling you to respond effectively to the most pressing threats over an ever-expanding attack surface. Reactive security is a temporary fix, not a sustainable solution.

For many CTOs, the most significant risk isn’t a lack of controls, it’s misplaced confidence. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault. And often, the failure begins with a false assumption: “Our cloud provider is handling PCI.” But PCI DSS doesn’t work that way. It’s a shared responsibility model, and the line between provider and customer isn’t always clear.

Cybersecurity is no longer a technical blocker but a strategic business priority crucial to survival. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is at the forefront of this transformation. Beyond being the technologist overseeing the development and implementation of security strategies, CISOs are multifaceted leaders, managers, and communicators responsible for allocating budgets, managing teams, and translating complex security concepts into actionable strategies.