The Financial Services Roundtable
Leigh Williams, BITS President
The Financial Services Roundtable represents 100 of the largest integrated financial services companies. Leigh Williams is president of BITS, the technology policy division of the Financial Services Roundtable. The following is from June 24, 2011, testimony before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies of the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing on “Examining the Homeland Security Impact of the Obama Administration’s Cybersecurity Proposal.” Within the financial services sector, the greatest amount of cybersecurity protection arises from voluntary measures taken by individual institutions for business reasons. To protect their retail customers, commercial clients, and their own…