We've known for roughly six months now that the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance deadline is Nov. 1, barely four months away. How close, then, are banking institutions to meeting that deadline?
That is the question of the summer, and the answer will be found in the results of our new Identity Theft Red...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first installment of an occasional series summarizing key banking/security regulatory documents.
The Business Continuity Planning manual is part of the IT Examination Handbook from Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). The March 2008 version of the BCP manual has...
New Hampshire customers of TD BankNorth were notified earlier this week that their Visa debit or credit cards have been compromised, and the likeliest culprit is the recent Hannaford Brothers Supermarkets security breach.
"We became aware during the last few days that there was some fraudulent activity on some of...
One midwestern credit union (which prefers to remain anonymous), with nearly $200 million in assets and more than 30,000 members, has been phished four times -- the most recent in 2006, with three of those incidents occurring within a 90-day period.
So what do you do if your financial institution's brand is...
RICHARD SWART: Hi this is Richard Swart with Information Security Media Group publishers of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfoSecurity.com. Today we’ll be speaking with James Kist who is a senior consultant for Icons Inc. He has more than 15 years experience in information technology and has authored courseware...
Here’s a podcast from Information Security Media Group on a hot security topic: Web Applications. Listen as information security expert James Kist answers questions regarding how important web app security is for a financial institution.
James Kist, CISSP, CCSI, CCSE, CCSA, is a senior Information Security...
The recent announcement by Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, that one of its employees at a subsidiary stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information is yet another drop in the bucket of data leakage.
A recent survey of banking executives showed the overwhelming majority plan to increase spending on automated Anti-Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring and on staff to help strengthen their compliance programs.
Darren Donovan, head of KPMG’s Forensic Services said the survey, administered by KPMG...
Visa is mounting a full-scale blitz to encourage merchants to use payment software that doesn't compromise consumer passwords. The card company has asked merchants to ensure that the software they use to process card transactions doesn't store the full contents of "track data", which contains passwords and other...
There are many unpleasant tasks in life and work. Monitoring employee behavior is one of those unpleasant tasks. Management has to take a strong role in insuring that liability does not come the company's way, i.e., Risk Management. New regulations hold management responsible for employee behavior which can cause the...
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