The small bank market depends on its leading vendors for its latest technologies, including remote capture, and fraud and security applications, according to a report completed last month. In the new report, Evaluating the Vendors of Small Banks' Core Banking Systems, Aite Group evaluated and compared the small-bank...
The Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) issued a bulletin on February 21 about the changes in Daylight Savings Time. All financial institutions should be aware that Daylight Savings Time begins earlier and ends later this year. The OCC bulletin reminds institutions and their technology service providers of the...
Securing the network against intrusion is more than complying with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s mandate for strong authentication—although it’s certainly that. It also makes good business sense. Financial institutions that implement information security technology and...
Prior to joining the American Bankers Association, Doug spent ten years as Assistant Director of the Florida Division of banking where he oversaw the supervision and regulation of Florida’s domestic and international banking industry. During that time, Doug served as an advisor to the US Congressional Office...
The largest banking association’s senior policy advisor gave his insights into what financial institutions really need during a 35-minute podcast with BankInfoSecurity.com.
Doug Johnson serves as the American Bankers Association’s Senior Policy Advisor for Government Relations, where he is involved in...
Catherine Allen is CEO of BITS, a financial service industry consortium made up of 100 of the largest financial institutions in the US. She is a noted innovator and visionary in the financial services industry. Named as one of 16 unsung heroes and rising stars by Fast Company Magazine, she led BITS from a fledgling...
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is the process whereby financial institutions ensure the maintenance or recovery of operations, including services to customers, when confronted with adverse events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error, or terrorism.
The objectives of a BCP are to minimize...
Information Security Media Group recently attended the RSA Conference 2007, the premier information security conference representing more than 200 comprehensive educational sessions and close to 400 of the top vendors in the infosec industry. The following audio is a selection of recordings taken on the expo floor...
Listen to BankInfoSecurity’s latest podcast as a leading phishing researcher explains some of his newest findings on phishing. Dr. Markus Jakobsson is a professor at Indiana University, and a research fellow with the Anti Phishing Working Group (AWPG). Dr. Jakobsson is also Associate Director of the Center of...
Listen to BankInfoSecurity’s latest podcast as a leading phishing researcher explains some of his newest findings on phishing. Dr. Markus Jakobsson is a professor at Indiana University, and a research fellow with the Anti Phishing Working Group (AWPG). Dr. Jakobsson is also Associate Director of the Center of...
The need to store and manage mushrooming quantities of unstructured content such as e-mails, instant messages, voice messages, and images is a major pain point for financial institutions of all sizes. An estimated 60 billion e-mails are sent across the globe each day and almost 80% of companies accept e-mail as...
A world authority on software and application security, Gary McGraw, PhD and CTO of Cigital, carries the software security torch. Over the past 11 years his six books on the subject of software security seem to have touched off a revolution. Security people who once relied solely on firewalls, intrusion detection, and...
The SANS Institute is the largest source for information security training and certification in the world. BankInfoSecurity.com recently interviewed Alan Paller, Director of Research for SANS and probed his views on information security and cyber threats facing financial institutions.
As Director of Research for...
A former FBI agent/computer specialist, Schmidt is one of the world’s top information security luminaries who helped lead the escalating war against cybercrime. He is one of the most credible and influential names in information security, and was Microsoft’s CSO and later eBay’s CISO. He’s...
Today we're speaking with Alan Paller of the SANS Institute. For those of you who don't know, SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest source for information security training and certification in the world. It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost the largest collection of research...
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