Financial CyberSecurity

Cybersecurity for financial institutions

We offer consulting service where we identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and provide solutions. In addition, we can train your staff, help you build cryptography groups in your own companies. and keep you up to date on recent developments.

Contact: info@risat.org

Services

RISAT provides service and consulting in the following areas:

cybersecurity for financial institutions (banks, government agencies)
consulting on crypto currencies
Security of communications systems for military and naval systems (this includes merchant vessels)
data security
strategic planning on cybersecurity

Consulting

Just because you have a successful business it doesn't mean that you are safe. Electronic theft is today the single biggest concern of any financial institution. In addition, data security, crypto currencies risk, and many other security issues make today's cyber world a very dangerous place. Most of the time companies do not understand how vulnerable they are or how to fix the cybersecurity issues.

Courses

We offer courses for students and young professionals who want to specialize on financial cybersecurity.

FCS 475: Foundations of Cryptography
FCS 511: Financial Cryptography
FCS 531: Modern Cryptography
FCS 541: Blockchains
FCS 542: Crypto currencies
FCS 535: Post-quantum financial security

FCS 475: Foundations of Cryptography

Classical cryptosystems
1. Introduction, Affine ciphers, Shift ciphers, Block ciphers
Advanced Encryption Standard
1. The overall structure of the AES
Hash functions and Message Authentication Codes
1. Different ways to use hashing for message authentication
2. Cryptographically secure hash functions
3. Hash functions for computing Message Authentication Codes
Public key cryptography
Discrete Log Problem
1. Introduction to the discrete log problem
2. The Massey-Omura cryptosystem for message transmission
3. The ElGamal cryptosystem
RSA
1. Encrypting via RSA, Encrypting function
2. How good is RSA?
ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
1. Introduction to elliptic curves, Elliptic curves over finite fields
2. ECC
Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography
Quantum computers and their impact on cryptography

FCS 511: Financial Cryptography

Protocols and Theory
1. E-Cash,
2. Auctions,
3. Electronic Voting,
4. Nonrepudiation,
5. Fair Exchange,
6. Broadcast and Content Distribution,
Systems, Device, Banking, and Commerce
1. Micropayment Systems,
2. Digital Rights Management,
3. Trusted Computing,
4. Hardware Security Modules,
5. Portfolio Trading,
Risk, Threats, Countermeasures, and Trust
1. Phishing,
2. Anonymity and Privacy,
3. Digital Watermarking,
4. Identity Management,
5. Public Key Infrastructure,
Perspectives
1. Human Factors,
2. Legal Issues,
3. Regulatory Compliance