Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, CISO at Coinflow, runs the company’s security program from Malta. Coinflow is headquartered in the United States and operates across multiple jurisdictions. Portelli sat down for this interview at the Span Cyber Security Arena conference.

Portelli says the sector drives his threat model more than the location. “It’s more the industry which we operate in. So, financial services, Web3, and crypto and all that comes with that. Crypto is a big target, especially for the big APTs. They’re always looking at how they can get into crypto firms because…