More than any other industry, banking and finance face significant risks of fraud and loss due to its customers’ making the unwise decision to stay on Windows XP. When we talk about the dangers that people on Windows XP pose to others, there’s probably no single industry that faces a greater set of risks by users being on Windows XP than banking and finance. And we’ve tried to make very clear that this is a situation that can affect everyone, not just those running Windows XP. We’ve talked about what people can expect in terms of the number of vulnerabilities they may see when Microsoft stops issuing security patches. We are less than a week away from a proverbial red letter day : the end of security support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014.įor the past few months, we’ve been talking about this impending event.
