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Private markets: Cybersecurity risk in fund administration
Last year’s Sunburst cyber-attack against public and private organisations worldwide acted as a reminder of the growing sophistication of cybercrime and the need for solid cybersecurity.
In our recent specialist fund administration roundtable, panellists discussed cybersecurity and where vulnerabilities lie in the privates sector.
“The Sunburst attack was very interesting,” Noel Fessey, CEO of European Fund Administration, said. “I don’t think state resources were directly employed, but it was probably state-funded and state-backed through a sophisticated cyber-attack ‘house’.”
According to Fessey, who 20 years ago was the global head of IT security for Schroders, apart from intelligence-gathering, you have to get back to the basics of understanding “what your layered defensive arrangements should be”.
Specialist fund admin roundtable: Technology and the human touch
Lee Godfrey (Managing director, Western Europe, Intertrust Group)
Stéphane Pesch (CEO, LPEA)
Christian Heinen (Managing director, IQ-EQ Luxembourg)
Noel Fessey (CEO, European Fund Administration)
Fabrice Mas (Head of PERA, Luxembourg, MUFG Investor Services)
Funds Europe – Within your firms, which is the single most complicated challenge that technology has helped solve in terms of carrying out administration for private markets vehicles? And which technology partner do you use?
Lee Godfrey, Intertrust – The SPV (special purpose vehicle) world has brought more and more into the fund administration space, and bridging that gap is sometimes complex because of the amount of data and the differences between that data.