1. Security and Crypto-currency: Forecasting the Future
of Privacy for Private Investors
PWM APAC SUMMIT | Kuala Lumpur Nov. 2-4, 2015
Bill Majcher

2. The Power of Prosecution
U.S. v. Rosner 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, 9-26-73
“In human experience, the pressure of imminent incarceration tends
to snap the bonds of loyalty”
Stronger than loyalty.
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3. WHYFamily Offices are Targets
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Governments are broke
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FO’s typically low profile – What are
they hiding?
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Unregulated – Threat of financial
instability
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Source of wealth often opaque
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Control large pools of capital
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May lack security resources and
sophistication of regulated entities
Follow the Money
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4. WHOis Targeting Family Offices?
IDEA
Follow the Money
• Governments – Police, Tax, Regulators
• Media – News of the World
• Activists – Political, Environmental, Netizens
• Criminals – Theft, Fraud, Blackmail, Kidnap
• Competitors – Disrupt, learn, steal
• Disgruntled family members or associates, former
employees
• Economic Mercenaries – Whistleblowers
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5. Examplesof Covert ScenariosGlobal Random Virtue Testing
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FATCA
Scenario:
•US Client with large sums of
money held offshore to be
invested
Approach:
•Representative of private Family
Office looking to preserve
multi-generational wealth
•Family is discreet and prefers
stable management over yield
•Money has been held offshore
for several generations but
family is US based and wishes
to remain discreet and offshore
Test:
•Offer to disclose assets most
susceptible to scrutiny and pay
higher management fee to keep
rest offshore
•Ask banker prior to mandated
FATCA disclosure to help
modify portfolio to “park”
dividends within an arms length
tax free structure
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6. FamilyOffices: ChallengesGlobal Random Virtue Testing
1. Humans
Commit
Crimes
2. Technology
and IT
systems
detect crime
3. Technology
designed and
monitored by
humans
There is a disconnect between regulatory theory and reality
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7. FamilyOffice Vulnerabilities - typicalMost are inadequately prepared.
Best defence is active offense.
And…INADEQUATE SYSTEMS
Improperly Trained Staff
Lost or Stolen PCs (laptops)
Unsecured Network (wifi)Trading Platforms
.
Customer Records
.
Mobile Devices
.
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8. ChallengesIn 2015Whom should you trust?
Blind acceptance of what
the computer shows leaves
family offices fully exposed
to prosecution and litigation
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9. HowFamily Offices will be targetedThreats.
Hacking, Malware, Cloning
Cyber Penetration
By trusted employees, partners,
family members
From Within
Social engineering
Covert Techniques
Facebook, Linkedin.
Social Media Deception
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10. TheCyber ProblemYour data is everywhere.
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11. CyberThreatsYour data is under attack.
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12. CHALLENGESof CryptocurrenciesThe new frontier of asset transfer.
• No central authority issues or regulates the currency
• Increasingly easy to exchange for goods or traditional
currencies
• Cross-border transactions frictionless and cheap
• Use of proxy or other anonymization tools make
transactions difficult or impossible to trace
• Example: Silk Road marketplace
• ‘Smurfing’ very viable ML technique by placing transactions
though multiple exchanges
• Possibility of government/regulatory intervention
• Risk of bugs that lead to a loss of confidence
• Risks of competition: Over 100 ‘alt’ currencies in use, of
which BTC is by far the most successful
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13. WHATis Bitcoin?Leading cryptocurrency.
• Bitcoin is proposed as a “peer to peer electronic cash
system” by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym), an
anonymous software engineer, October 2008.
• A stateless, peer-to-peer payment system. "There's no
central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions
completely peer to peer”—Jim Cramer
• Transactions do not go through bank or credit card
• Relies on the blockchain, a cryptographically-protected
public ledger, to ensure a given user owns a given BTC
and has not spent it already—solves the “double-spend”
issue
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14. WHATis Bitcoin? Continued.Leading cryptocurrency.
• Bitcoins are “mined” by computers “solving” a special
mathematical problem
• Mining will cease around 2040 when 21m BTC have been
issued.
• Bitcoin / USD exchange rate:
• July 17, 2010 1 Bitcoin = $ 0.0495
• October 16, 2015 1 Bitcoin = $ 271.00
• Highest ever: $1124.76 on November 29, 2013
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15. AUTHORITIESsee benefits/challengesFirst regulations promulgated in the U.S.
• FBI issues internal report worrying that the currency
could become a payment method for cyber criminals in
the near future, and could be used to fund “illicit groups.”
Report is leaked to the Internet. April 2012
• U.S. Treasury’s first official guidance on virtual currencies,
March 2013. Bitcoin Exchanges—businesses that convert
BTC into “real” currencies—operating in the U.S. must
obtain “money transmitter licenses” and are regulated as
Money Services Businesses
• US regulators, including Fed chairman comment
positively on bitcoin at a Senate hearing, November 2013.
Wall Street Journal
11/18/13
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16. KEYTermsCritical to your understanding.
Peer-to-Peer – payments are person-to-person, not through a bank or intermediary
Blockchain – a public register that tracks all BTC transactions
Satoshi – the unknown creator of the BTC protocol
Exchange – allows the conversion of traditional currencies into/from BTC
Bitcoin Mining – the creation of BTC units, which are awarded in a ‘lottery’ to computers solving a special problem
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17. AMLRisks of BTC/cryptosGuard against money-laundering
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But…
• size of entire BTC/crypto
market is small…for now.
At placement stage
• BTC converted with
ease to traditional
currency
At integration stage
• Accepted by more and more
merchants
At layering stage
• Transactions are peer-to-peer
• do not go through a regulated intermediary
• Transactions are completely anonymous
• With small degree of sophistication, transactions
untraceable
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18. HOWto Protect YourselfYour subtitle goes here
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to deal with Human Risk
Institute Principles Based
Governance
Deploy continuous offensive cyber tactics
against yourself with ability to remediate if
attacked or under attack. Equally important is
to know who attacked you.
A Good Offence is a
Better Defence
Don’t use mobile phone,
computer or any
electronic device
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19. ContactInfo
Bill Majcher
bill.majcher@emidr.com
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+852 6891 7919

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