What are some of the constants - - and you’ve obviously, with your years of experience, seen many of them, but what are we still dealing with, the problems you had back in the early days, in terms of information, security and risk? And is the TJX data breach that just recently hit the headlines a glimpse of...
Just because it hasn’t happened yet, don’t think that the avian influenza pandemic isn’t going to happen. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,†a DHS representative said during a presentation to a financial services industry group. And when the avian flu does...
Listen to this latest podcast on CUInfoSecurity.com. You'll hear Rhonda MaClean, former CISO of Bank of America's take on the following:
· The TJX data breach - these kinds of problems are not going away
· What's important about getting back to basics of information security
· Customers' trust in the...
Listen to this latest podcast on CUInfoSecurity.com. You'll hear Tom Walsh, CISSP, and a business continuity expert give his insights on the following:
- Have the lessons learned from 9-11 been retained?
- Why FFIEC has a strong emphasis on testing a Business Continuity Plan
- Common mistakes and assumptions made...
Manual processes leave financial institutions open to insider threats, said a study showing that nearly 60 percent of U.S. businesses and government agencies report they don't have the information or the technology to deal with insider threats to their network. This is according to a new study done by the Ponemon...
Once an isolated planet, information security has now become a universe in itself! Today, security is acknowledged as an integral component for corporate success leading to the increase in demand for highly-skilled security professionals. A recent study conducted by IDC for the International Information Systems...
Banks are attracted to Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) as an alternative to traditional telephone networks because of the potential cost savings, including elimination of long distance charges and the need for only one network to manage both voice and data. However, VoIP entails increased data security risks,...
The Gramm Leach Bliley Act may not appear to have anything to link it to the Voice Over IP technology being implemented in financial institutions, but IT departments and Information Security officers should look closely at how the new phone systems may be audited under GLBA regulations. GLBA audits would focus more on...
Banks and credit unions need to do a better job to protect their customers from phishing, and strong authentication is only one part of the equation, says Aaron Emigh during a CUInfoSecurity.com podcast.
Aaron Emigh is a well known expert in information security. He’s the author of the U.S Secret service SF...
Being an information security officer at a financial institution isn’t an easy job, but imagine being the first Chief Information Security Officer at your institution, and the first one, period. Steve Katz shared his thoughts on information security from his unique perspective of being just that—the...
LINDA MCGLASSON: Are we in information security becoming too complacent? I mean, we have a lot of zero-day threats, hundred thousand node botnet sending us virus threats and all things like that, and those of us in information security, you know, look at the situation and think that this is normal operation...
Information Security Media Group interviews Wyatt Starnes, a pioneer in computer network intrusion detection. Wyatt Starnes is the founder of TripWire, a tool for host-based intrusion detection.
The interview includes his views on information security in the financial services industry, the trusted computing...
The FDIC’s Information Technology Risk Management Program (IT-RMP), used by FDIC examiners in the examination process of financial institutions, will be looking more closely at the way financial institutions choose, oversee, and document their technology service providers and how those technology service...
In 2006, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a revised version of the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Examination Manual. The manual has been updated to incorporate regulatory changes since the manual was first released in 2005 and to clarify supervisory expectations....
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