While technological solutions abound in financial institutions have installed firewalls, intrusion detection systems, robust anti-virus and anti-spyware solutions, and strengthened authentication methods, financial institutions have forgotten security awareness training. One reason? There isn’t a recognizable...
Developing a metrics measurement for your financial institution doesn’t have to be something that is dreaded or feared. Planning a metric program and implementing it to measure the effectiveness of your entire information security program can yield your group and your financial institution unseen benefits.
The original use of the term "firewall" was the description of the brick and mortar wall built in between houses to prevent a fire from spreading from one house to the next.
A computer firewall does basically the same thing, it prevents bad things from entering your computer. A properly installed firewall protects...
RICHARD SWART: Hi. This is Richard Swart, Information Security Media Group, publishers of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfoSecurity.com. Today, we’ll be speaking with Mr. Ben Chisolm, recently the Chief Information Security Officer of the United States Treasury. He has 16 years of experience in federal...
A scavenger hunt. A Jeopardy-like trivia game. A well-known guest speaker. A movie about espionage. Some good ideas for your institution’s party? Sure.
But they’re also possibilities in a security awareness training program, according to some experts in the field. “Most people think training has...
The often repeated "Information Security isn't a destination, but a continuous journey," rings true for financial institution's information security professionals. What is taken along on any journey? A map showing where you've been and where you plan to go is usually needed, unless you want to wander aimlessly. In...
Before you launch your information security awareness and training program, did you put any mechanisms in place to measure what your employees think, learn and retain on information security?
To have an effective security training program, you will want to have metrics in place from the beginning. If you don’t...
If it ever happened to you before, you know better than not to perform regular backups on your computer. Now, if you've never had your hard drive wiped out by an attacker or a virus that crashed your system, you will want to take this piece of advice and really think hard - do you want your data to become corrupted...
RICHARD SWART: Good to talk to you today. Could you provide us an overview of what’s happening in cyber security education and research in the United States right now? How good of a job are our universities doing?
DR. EUGENE SPAFFORD: Overall I think we’re not doing very well. We’re...
Listen in to this Information Security Media Group podcast as Dr. Eugene Spafford, Executive Director of Purdue University’s University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) shares his views on gaps in cybersecurity education; why lack of attention to security issues...
Feel like you're canned in by the spam emails in your inbox? Don't despair, here are some common sense tips to help stop spam from getting to your email inbox.
The Federal Trade Commission’s second summit on Spam in the last four years addressed the growing problem of unsolicited emails that is creating costs for businesses and consumers alike.
FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras addressed the summit held July 11-12 in Washington, D.C. “The volume of spam...
Hiring and adding new members to the team is always a mixed feeling. Will this person work out? Should we keep looking for a back up candidate, If What? And so many other unanswered questions plague our mind.
Jeff, you are known for your innovative and effective training programs. Could you tell us about the approaches you have used and what has made them so successful?
JEFF BARDIN: I think one of the things I’ve been able to do is use different media types, software awareness and training programs. The...
Today, we will be speaking with Stephen Northcutt, CEO of the SANs Technology Institute, a postgraduate level IT security college, and an acknowledged expert in training and certification. He founded the GIAC certification and is author and co-author of numerous books, including the seminal book in intrusion...
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