I was stunned and saddened to learn of the sudden death of David Taylor, one of the most prominent thought-leaders on the Payment Card System Data Security Standard (PCI).
Of all things I was prepared for over the Columbus Day weekend - baseball playoffs, kids' activities, fall foliage - I wasn't prepared for this: A week without bank failures.
Years ago, when I learned to drive and got my first cars, my approach to automobile maintenance was: If the "Check Engine" light came on, keep driving. Whatever the problem is, I'll drive out of it.
I see a disturbingly similar pattern now in the banking industry.
TJX. Hannaford. Heartland. Those are the names we all know, the famous fraud stories we all can recite by heart.
But who knows about Unique Industrial Product Co., a Sugar Land, Tex.-based company that lost $1.2 million to fraudsters this last April?
This past Independence Day weekend, hackers targeted government and business websites in the United States and South Korea, causing confusion for network managers to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate web traffic.
Security related incidents such as these have become not only more numerous and...
I got a call recently from a friend of mine (let's call her Sally) who is a fraud expert in the financial services industry. She had just heard from her bank, US Bank, asking if she'd been to Orlando recently. She responded no, she hadn't (It is never a good thing when your bank asks if you've been somewhere you...
The Heartland data breach and July's denial of service (DDoS) attacks against government agencies are among the biggest information security incidents of the year. And they've pushed incident response into the spotlight.
Peter Allor is on the Steering Committee of the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams...
Robberies, ATM heists, insider thefts - there are so many risks to employees, customers, funds and electronic data, and they're only heightened by economic conditions. Desperate times, desperate people. This is why we focus on physical security this month - to underscore how critical it is to a banking...
The worst thing a bank president or a senior management team at a financial institution can hear is "We've had a data breach."
John Scanlon, a senior executive at Intersections, speaks to data breach readiness and the lessons learned from others' incidents. Intersections is a business partner of the Identity Theft...
The Heartland data breach and July's denial of service (DDoS) attacks against government agencies are among the biggest information security incidents of the year. And they've pushed incident response into the spotlight.
Peter Allor is on the Steering Committee of the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams...
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