The IMI Colloquium Report in July 9, 2025
July 24, 2025
Title: Recent trends and challenges for information security in the financial sector
Date: Wednesday, 9 July 2025 16:45-17:45
Place: IMI Auditorium(W1-D-413) and Live streaming with Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Masashi Une (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan)
Attendance: 31(Students: 18; Staff: 13)
In this colloquium, the speaker talked about the following information security issues in the financial field.
・ Compromise of existing cryptography by quantum computers and transition to next-generation cryptography
・ Security of authorization in open APIs
・ Security of AI and machine learning
Through this colloquium, we could understand the importance of information security and its human resources in the financial field, and it gave us an opportunity to think about how mathematics can play an active role in such a field in the future.