The big banks’ cybersecurity chiefs are not the average techies, traders or salespeople you generally meet in finance.
The chief risk officers to whom they sometimes report often come from a quantitative background, because their role, driven to seniority by the financial crisis, has been to ensure the complex financial risks banks run are managed in a way the regulators are happy with. But the security guys do not need to understand derivatives calculus, they need to understand how criminals and hostile states think and act.
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“We hire people from the security services and from law enforcement because they can give you a realistic, granular view,” says one bank’s C-suite member.
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