. >> matched with significant infrastructure attacks like ramco and other. portend a real series of attacks on a financial system in a way that is systemic and important. now, let me just move very quickly to discuss why the financial system, and in particular banks, have become such an interesting and important part of this landscape. as i have often said, in many ways, the international global banks are now at the center of the cyber storm. and that's for a few reasons. one, banks in the financial system is where the money is. if you want to profit, if you're an organized criminal ring that just wants to make money, you want to engage in fraud, that's where you hack. that's where you attempt to get access to data and to money. it's also where intellectual property, sensitive data, reputational data that's important to banks and intellectual property important to deals and companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions and attempts to enter new markets. so that information becomes valuable to a whole host of actors. banks over the last 15 years have also bec