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...
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...
Information Security Media Group, Corp. is launching a new sister website specifically for the credit union community - CUInfoSecurity.com. The new site organizes the latest credit union information security related regulations, news, articles, white papers, industry related events, webinars, education and resources...
Voice verification is a form of biometrics that involves using voice prints and recognition of the user's phone, a combination known as a voice token. It is regarded as a next-generation authentication technology.
The more-advanced voice recognition systems record and store combinations of sounds and notes. For...
Dr. Jakobsson is also Associate Director of the Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research, and the founder of RavenWhite, Inc. He is the inventor or co-inventor of more than fifty patents, has served as the Vice President of the International Financial Cryptography Association, and is a Research Fellow of the...
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...
Banking via telephone and wireless mobile devices has become an important delivery channel for financial institutions. As with Internet banking, telephones and wireless devices afford great convenience for bank customers, but unfortunately they too are prone to phishing and other forms of attack.
The Federal...
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...
With the deadline passed for compliance with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidelines, financial institutions are seeking cost-effective strategies that meet or exceed meeting regulatory and customer expectations.
According to the FFIEC, any system that permits the movement of...
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...
During Howard Schmidt's remarkable career in public and corporate service, he has seen it all from the inside. He began his information security career in government in the U.S. Air Force and helped establish it's groundbreaking computer forensics lab. He then moved into law enforcement. Later he left public...
Writing effective information security policy is more than just laying down a set of rules and procedures; it's a process unto itself, whose goal is to create a dynamic instrument that will protect a financial institution's most precious asset - information.
Fortunately, resources exist to assist chief information...
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