Blog Security Research The High Stakes of Innovation: Attack Trends in Financial Services Steve Winterfeld is Akamai's Advisory CISO. Before joining Akamai, he served as Director of Cybersecurity for Nordstrom and CISO for Nordstrom bank, and served as Director of Incident Response and Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab. Steve focuses on ensuring that our partners are successful in defending their customers and on determining where we should be focusing our capabilities. Steve has published a book on cyber warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL, and PMP certifications. Editorial and additional commentary by Cheryl Chiodi Executive summary \r\n \r\n \r\n Web application and API attacks in the financial services industry grew by 65% when comparing Q2 2022 with Q2 2023, accounting for 9 billion attacks in 18 months.…