Since its foundation, in January 2017, CERTFin has analysed and circulated information about 1,000 cyber events; and it has sent more than 200 warnings to individual financial firms about potential attacks, while continuously monitoring vulnerable areas. Lastly, it is important to stress that actions taken by financial-sector authorities must be integrated with national cyber security strategies and frameworks.
Following advances in computer technology since the 1960s, financial markets started to move away from recording  Page 1 of 6  securities ownership in a physical ledger to recording ownership on centralised digital ledgers.