Think of how the banking landscape has changed over the past year. Starting in Sept. 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Washington Mutual failed, Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America - seismic moves that signaled unprecedented change in the industry.
Just as the banking industry has changed, so...
Information assurance is a topic atop many agendas these days, starting with the president's own cybersecurity initiative. But what is the state of information assurance education?
Dr. Eugene Spafford of Purdue University is one of the icons of security education, and in this exclusive interview he...
Fraud patterns shift as fast as you can implement new anti-theft systems.
Your fraud profiling needs to go beyond cardholder profiling.
Global Profiling is a new technology that enables fraud systems to profile entities such as ATMs, merchants, point-of-sale terminals, mobile phone kiosks and other entities. By...
Interview with Rep. Yvette Clarke, Chair, House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science and Technology
To quell the rising tide of information breaches and to protect government and key civilian IT systems, the idea of regulating IT and data is gaining ground among those who shape federal law...
San Joaquin Bank of Bakersfield, California, was closed on Friday, Oct. 16, by the California Department of Financial Institutions.
This was the only bank failure of the week, and the 113th failed institution of 2009.
The past year has been an education for anybody in the banking industry. And the year's events have also had an impact on banking education, says Kirby Davidson, President and CEO of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In an exclusive interview, Davidson discusses:
How the past...
It's one of the newest and most popular stops on the Washington, D.C. tour, and its artifacts of history leave clues for how information security professionals should approach their future.
The International Spy Museum has just celebrated its 7th year and its 5 millionth visitor, says Executive Director Peter...
Governance, risk and compliance - GRC - are priorities for information security leaders of all organizations. And these priorities have only been underscored by the economic recession and elevated scrutiny of businesses and government agencies.
In an exclusive interview on GRC trends, Chris McClean, analyst with...
This month didn't slip out of my scope, but it's already October 15 -- halfway through Cybersecurity Awareness Month, designated for the last six years as the month when the public relation arms of security vendors, governors of states and other political types with predetermined agendas set forth to right a whole...
A local branch of M & T Bank in Rodgers Forge, MD was found to have tossed 52 customer records into a dumpster last week. The bank says the records were dumped inadvertently.
The exposure was revealed after a local news crew from an ABC affiliate went "dumpster diving" in the bank branch's dumpster and found the...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently established an Advisory Committee on Community Banking. One of its 14 committee members is Charles Brown, chairman and CEO of Insignia Bank in Sarasota, FL.
Social networking. Cyberbullying. Identity theft.
There are myriad threats to children as they explore their online universe. And to counter these threats is Safe and Secure Online, a new interactive presentation that brings information security professionals into classrooms to give sound advice to 11-14-year-old...
Organizations are doing a good job protecting their operating systems, but they're leaving their critical applications vulnerable to dangerous cyber threats.
This is the key takeaway - and to some extent the surprise - of the new Top Cybersecurity Risks report released on Sept. 15 by TippingPoint, Qualys, the...
There is no such thing as the hack-proof computer.
Once we accept that reality, the next challenge is to acknowledge that a certain amount of IT risk is a part of conducting business. Risks also come in many different forms. I'm often asked which is worse -- regulatory, policy or compliance risk? I believe it may...
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