What Have We Learnt From Hackers?

Having worked in the financial sector for the bulk of my career, we always had to have an “ear to the ground” to understand the security vulnerabilities of the technology we were working with and to try to stay one step ahead of the nasty hacker types. I am pleased to say that in the 23 years I worked as technical director for a software development agency which focused on the financial sector, we never had any security breaches which resulting in financial or data loss.