Risk management and effective security controls are on every organization's agenda, and responding to this market demand is ISACA (formerly known as the International Information Systems Auditing and Control Standards), which introduces a new risk-related certification for IT risk professionals.
Malware is increasingly sophisticated, and social media are the common new venues for attacks.
These are the headlines from the latest Cisco Annual Security Report. Patrick Peterson, Cisco senior fellow, offers highlights of the report, discussing:
Top trends and threats;
The risks to specific vertical...
There's hope on the horizon. Four straight months of growth in IT services firms' payrolls could be a harbinger that tech employment is set to rise again as the economic recovery takes hold.
All things considered, 2009 was a good year for banking institutions in the state of Nebraska. But looking ahead to 2010, Mike Jacobson, chair of the Nebraska Bankers Association, is concerned about the potential impact of federal regulatory reform.
In an exclusive interview on the state of banking in the New Year,...
Financial institutions in Georgia, Iowa and Indiana report being hit by the automated phone phishing attacks that have been striking institutions across the U.S. since early last fall.
Reports of ATM fraud incidents continue to rise.
Criminals hit ATMs in two states over the recent holidays to skim account numbers and PINs from customers in North Carolina and Florida, according to police.
The New Year started where the old one left off: Federal and state banking regulators closed a pair of banking institutions on Friday, Jan. 8.
In Washington, Horizon Bank of Bellingham was closed by the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions. And in California, the Bakersfield-based Kern Central...
It's been over a year now since banking regulators began examining institutions for compliance with the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule. What have been the common deficiencies, and what will examiners be expected in year two?
Jeff Kopchik, senior policy analyst with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),...
Heartland Payment Systems announced today that it will pay Visa-branded credit and debit card issuers up to $60 million to cover losses incurred from the Heartland data breach. It is the largest known settlement amount ever paid to Visa as a result of a breach, eclipsing the TJX settlement of $40.9 million in November...
How prepared is the financial services industry in the event of a cyber attack?
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), a national industry forum, will conduct Cyber Attack Against Payment Processes (CAPP), an exercise to measure the ability of financial institutions, payment...
Philip Foley, a former marine, is a senior security analyst for governance, risk and compliance at Verizon Cybertrust Security. He works a minimum of 40 hours per week with extensive travel - and then dedicates another 10-12 hours to pursuing an online graduate degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University.
2010 is the Chinese year of the tiger - a fitting image for banking/security leaders that must be vigilant against the information security threats that challenge financial institutions and their customers.
To prepare for this New Year, we've prepared a Banking/Security Agenda that looks at fraud, regulatory...
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