I was laying here last night, reading into the nuances of FINRA, the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), and the SEC’s Rule 613 of Regulation National Market System (NMS), because I wanted to gain a deepe
In the high-stakes environment of high-frequency trading (HFT) and mission-critical financial infrastructure, perimeter defenses are often prioritized to the point of perceived invulnerability. Howeve
In the high-stakes world of financial infrastructure, "Operational Excellence" is often measured by a single metric: Uptime. However, when an organization like Exegy Inc intentionally caps technical p
Executive Summary A comprehensive technical audit of Exegy’s Managed Services infrastructure has uncovered a series of systemic security failures governing how remote appliances are provisioned and ma
In the high-stakes world of electronic trading, infrastructure hardening is often focused on the OS level—securing Linux kernels, tightening SSH access, and monitoring application logs. However, a sig
Editor’s Note: This article represents Part 1 of a multi-part investigative series into the systemic security failures within large-scale Puppet infrastructure deployments. Executive Summary In modern
