The Security team compiled this year’s top news stories, spanning international data breaches to COVID-19 risk assessments.

JPMorgan Chase and at least four other financial institutions were hacked recently in a series of coordinated attacks, and investigators believe Russian hackers were the source of the attacks, a federal law enforcement official told USA Today.  What is less clear is whether the attacks were prompted by U.S. sanctions against the Russian government.

Regardless of how vigorously the industry applies risk management principles and how diligently the government shares information, there is no chance the private sector can consistently withstand intrusion attempts from foreign military units and intelligence services or even, for that matter, from transnational organized crime.