Howard Schmidt, a recognized information security thought leader, offers exclusive insights as new president of the Information Security Forum.
Schmidt, a household name in information security circles since his days as CISO and information security leader at Microsoft and eBay, discusses the global war against...
It's all anyone wants to talk about.
In the wake of Washington Mutual's historic failure last week and the Wachovia takeover today, all anyone wants to discuss is the enormity of these events what they mean to the banking industry.
The second conspirator/hacker in the biggest hacking case ever has been convicted of conspiring to electronically break into computer networks, steal credit and debit card information and sell it. He faces up to 22 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Christopher Scott pled guilty to conspiracy, access device...
First in a Series of New Roundtable Events Showcasing Emerging Technologies...
Hear about emerging trends in consumer authentication
Find out how consumer authentication can be improved with emerging technologies and new functionalities
Learn how to use authentication as a means to restore trust in your...
I have issues with weak passwords and easy to guess answers for challenge questions on password resets. This was Sarah Palin's (Republican vice presidential candidate)apparent problem with her personal Yahoo! email account. It only took a Google search and some thought on a young hacker's part to find out the...
You know someone. Out of millions of Merrill Lynch customers, you should know at least one. Combine Bank of America's many more millions of banking customers, and you have to know someone. I know quite a few myself. All of these people are waiting to be absorbed into what is ultimately a new regime. This state of...
This whitepaper presents an overview of the security options that can help thwart fraud today and into the future, including multi-factor authentication and fraud detection solutions. With a clear understanding of the tools available and a way to effectively begin and evolve, organizations can take the essential steps...
With all the focus on banks and credit unions' work to comply with the ID Theft Red Flags Rule, many in the financial services industry have forgotten that the largest share of entities impacted by this new regulation are non-banking institutions -- finance companies, automobile dealers, mortgage brokers, etc.
And...
To me, this is one of the sleeper stories of the year.
The ID Theft Red Flags Rule, Business Continuity and Anti-Money Laundering have dominated the headlines - and banking/security priorities. But recent attention paid to Application Security has the potential to fuel one major fire drill in 2009.
When I started this job a year ago and reached out to banking/security leaders, the overwhelming message I got was "Security awareness - we don't do it well."
For banking institution employees, maybe there was an information security training seminar when they first started. Or an occasional workshop on identity...
This is a transcript of a recent webinar, Insider Threats - Safeguarding Enterprise Information Assets, sponsored by Imprivata. This session discusses the need and importance for convergence of physical and logical access control. To highlight the significance, Imprivata showcases their revolutionary product,...
As financial institutions scramble to meet the Nov. 1 deadline for Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance, the operative word is "prevention" - as in Identity Theft Prevention Program.
And the key to making prevention work, observers say, is a sound customer awareness program that goes beyond statement stuffers...
Everyone was watching the Olympics this past month and saw lots of records being broken. But there is one record no one want to be included in -- the record number of 449 data breaches that have happened (and been made public) and recorded by the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Unfortunately for some unlucky...
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has announced that the data breach that occurred back in May is much bigger than the 4.5 million records originally announced. The bank now says that another 8 million customers were affected by the breach, bringing the total figure to 12.5 million, which may make it the...
GLBA who? Bank Secrecy what? Insider Threat?...is that something mob-related?
Your customers may not even know your institution is examined for security compliance by the banking regulatory agencies, and so most likely will have never even heard about the ID Theft Red Flags Rule and the impending November 1 ...
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