Institutions of all sizes struggle with staffing resources - having enough hands available to tend to information security matters. At America First Credit Union in Riverdale, Utah, Lane Gittins, the Systems Security Manager, has learned to overcome this challenge by working in a consultative style - directing a...
Mark Bernard is the Security & Privacy Officer at Credit Union Central of British Columbia. Today, Mark's credit union is the first financial institution to achieve ISO 27001 certification. Mark discusses ISO 27001 certification and its benefits with BankInfoSecurity.
Background: ISO 27001 is an information security...
Planning for disaster - whether a simple service disruption or a pandemic event - is paramount to any financial institution. But where does the responsibility fall?
Roger Batsel, SVP, Managing Director of Information Systems at Republic Bank, Louisville, KY., says it's time to separate duties: Let IT handle system...
I was talking the other day with a friend who works at an information security risk company. He shared with me the higher-level details of a physical penetration test on which he tagged along.
We've known for roughly six months now that the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance deadline is Nov. 1, barely four months away. How close, then, are banking institutions to meeting that deadline?
That is the question of the summer, and the answer will be found in the results of our new Identity Theft Red...
Our insightful content just became a whole lot more interactive - and opinionated.
With the debut of five new blogs on BankInfoSecurity.com and CUinfoSecurity.com, Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is opening the floodgates to a whole new level of informed opinion and two-way communication with its vast...
Finally, it's your turn to have your say.
Since first joining Information Security Media Group late last summer, one of my primary goals has been to debut a blog for BankInfoSecurity.com and CUinfoSecurity.com.
Today, proudly, I'm able to announce the launch of not just one blog, but five - with more to come in...
With just under five months to go before the Nov. 1 deadline, how close are financial institutions to compliance with the new Identity Theft Red Flags Rule?
This is the key question to be answered by a new survey from Information Security Media Group (ISMG), which seeks to shed new light on what tracks to be one of...
Do you know how prevalent workplace violence is?
There are over 1.7 million instances of workplace violence each year in the U.S., including simple and aggravated assaults, robbery, rape and homicide. In addition, issues surrounding workplace violence include threats, non-fatal injuries, lost work productivity,...
The clear message from banking regulators in their Senate testimony is: Banks are hurting.
The follow-up question is: Exactly how badly are they hurting, and how will their pain trickle down to impact information security programs and priorities?
Security leaders are quickly evolving in their roles to focus more on the business of banking, less on the technology of information security.
This is the main message delivered by the results of ISACA's recent Information Security Career Progression Survey of 1400 Certified Information Security Managers (CISMs) in...
Interview with John Pironti of ISACA's Education Board
Security leaders are quickly evolving in their roles to focus more on the business of banking, less on the technology of information security.
This is the main message delivered by the results of ISACA's recent Information Security Career Progression...
As of Oct. 1, U.S. banking institutions have just one month to come into compliance with the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, which mandates new levels of ID Theft program management, training and awareness.
Register for this webinar to get your first glimpse at the new regulatory examination procedures for this...
In case you missed it - because it wasn't a huge headline anywhere - here's a bit of news about First Pryority Bank, a 108-year-old community bank based in Pryor, OK.
Well, first a bit of background. First Pryority was founded in 1900 by W.A. Graham,
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