It's been seven years since the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) regulations first came to financial institutions and the interagency guidance was issued by the FFIEC. How far have banks come in meeting it, especially where GLBA 501(b) is concerned?
We asked banking regulators for their insight on what progress has...
Some U.S. senators don't just want to make the news, they want to be front and center in the headlines. Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator from New York, is the latest headline maker.
Chuck Schumer's letters in late June to banking agencies inquiring about the stability and strength of IndyMac bank -- prior to the...
Talk about a harmonic convergence.
Just as the major banking regulatory agencies went before the Senate committee recently to deliver their "State of the Banking Industry" addresses, I was sitting back and starting to think about drafting the questions for our next State of Banking Information Security survey.
Just the other night, I was watching the 1958 classic movie about the sinking of the Titanic. You know, the one that told the straight story before Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's steamy romantic version?
The Financial Modernization Act of 1999, AKA the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or just plain GLBA.
However you know it, financial institutions now have had several years of regulatory oversight and examination on it, but some are still struggling to meet the regulation's myriad list of requirements, which include...
On one hand, this step does show that the business has made a conscientious effort to plug a major security hole.
But on the other, can't you see that first lawsuit filed by a breached customer saying "Hey, you gave me this stuff and said my PC was safe ...?"
With all due respect to the pugilist fan base still out there, the FDIC used a classic left-right combo this past week aimed squarely at the jaw of the third-party service provider community.
First Sheila C. Bair, the Chairman of the FDIC, touched on emerging guidance regarding third-party service providers in
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...
Timing is everything, and March was the perfect time to focus on business continuity and disaster recovery.
On the heels of our State of Information Security survey, which showcased your main areas of concern (namely, pandemic preparation), March saw the release of important new guidance: the Federal Financial...
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) this week issued long-awaited new guidance on business continuity planning. The update - the first in five years - includes increased focus on business impact analysis and testing, as well as new emphasis on pandemic planning.
When it comes to pandemic preparation at U.S. financial institutions, it's a case of good news/bad news.
Bad news first: Many midsized and smaller financial institutions are not fully compliant with the recent FFIEC pandemic guidance and don't have formalized pandemic preparedness plans yet in place.
But the good...
The good news is: The financial services industry is "head and shoulders" above other industries when it comes to being prepared for a pandemic disaster.
The bad news is: There's still a ton of work to be done before banking institutions can say they're truly ready to face such a crisis.
Pandemic preparation gets the lion's share of the headlines when it comes to Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery these days. And that's fine. The topic deserves the attention. Needs it.
But that's not to say that pandemic preparation is the only topic of BC/DR conversation.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has just issued an interagency statement on pandemic planning for financial institutions. This guidance lays out the actions and framework that institutions should address in their business continuity plans to minimize the potential impact of a pandemic...
If 2007 is any indication, then 2008 is going to be a wild year for financial institutions facing a slew of risk management issues.
Hanging like the sword of Damocles above all is the subprime mortgage crisis, which sees institutions looking for ways to avoid foreclosures and challenges surrounding underwriting....
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