LINDA MCGLASSON: Welcome to another podcast in our podcast series. I’m Linda McGlasson with BankInfoSecurity.com, and today we’re speaking with Catherine Allen, CEO of BITS, the financial services roundtable. Catherine Allen is a noted innovator and visionary in the financial services industry. Named...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Data breaches were hitting the headlines almost every week in 2006, with an estimated 100 million records compromised due to security breaches over the 100 million mark, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which tracks breaches dating to the ChoicePoint incident in 2005. With all the press coverage and...
Wish List from Financial Institutions to Our Customers
As the weather outside gets colder and the year draws to an end, we're thinking of what would be some of the things we'd like to give and receive as gifts during the holidays. While your personal list may be longer than this, here's the 12 things we wish all of...
Wish List from Financial Institutions to Our Customers
As the weather outside gets colder and the year draws to an end, we're thinking of what would be some of the things we'd like to give and receive as gifts during the holidays. While your personal list may be longer than this, here's the 12 things we wish all of...
With the December deadline approaching for implementing better authentication for online banking systems, financial institutions are hard-pressed to come up with technology solutions that will satisfy regulators. It's going to be a race to the finish line to meet the deadline set by the Federal Financial Institutions...
The FAQs recently published by the FFIEC on August 15, 2006, is an attempt by the FFIEC to answer questions asked of them about their guidelines on Internet Banking Authentication published October 12, 2005. The 2005 guidelines were an outgrowth of a previous guidance document issued in 2001.
As with all federal...
Visa is mounting a full-scale blitz to encourage merchants to use payment software that doesn't compromise consumer passwords. The card company has asked merchants to ensure that the software they use to process card transactions doesn't store the full contents of "track data", which contains passwords and other...
EMC Corp.'s recent acquisition of RSA Inc. underscores the convergence of information security and storage. EMC, which sells large storage systems for use in corporate data centers, bought RSA - a manufacturer of encryption software and devices - to provide it with identity and access management technologies and...
Exploitations that threaten security are on the rise. Every day, news stories document the rampant growth of attacks and exploits. The types of attacks vary - Denial of Service (DoS), buffer overflow, identity theft, session hijacking, website defacements, email viruses, worms, phishing scams, and the list goes on. ...
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