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Global Financial Messaging Service Contracts With BAE, Fox-IT For Cyber Security Help

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, July 11th, 2016

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Global Financial Messaging Service Contracts With BAE, Fox-IT For Cyber Security Help

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In the wake of recent cyber security heists of tens of millions of dollars via a global financial messaging system, the cooperative that manages the system on Monday said it has hired Britain’s BAE Systems and the Dutch firm Fox-IT to provide cyber security services and expertise.The values of the contracts were not disclosed.The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) said the contracted services and its in-house cyber security experts will work with its newly created Customer Security Intelligence…

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