Online fraud is a non-stop threat to organizations around the globe, and
cybercriminals have no intention of slowing down the pace. In fact, they
continue to improve their technology, launch increasingly sophisticated
attacks, and use advanced social engineering techniques to dupe online
users into falling for...
Ghosts of Crimes Past and Present Will Haunt the Future of Banking Institutions and Customers
"The more things change, the more things stay the same." This old saying holds true when it comes to the different types of fraud hitting financial institutions.
In 2009, institutions were hit from every angle with...
On the heels of our inaugural Information Security Today Career Trends Survey, we've prepared a special report looking at the hottest job skills and opportunities in 2010 - including risk management and forensics. In this edition:
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The Internet offers financial institutions the promise of delivering new services at a fraction of the cost of traditional channels. As more consumers move online, this migration helps reduce operating costs and increase their customer base. The challenge lies in being able to offer these services across new and...
Financial institutions must address a growing number of regulations designed to ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of customer and corporate data . Regulations are often mandatory and compliance must be verifiable. In many cases, organizations and their company officers found to be non-compliant may be...
Information technology (IT) security is indispensable to an organization's ability to conduct business and achieve its objectives. With regulatory compliance and industry data security standards dominating many of these business objectives, confidential data protection comes to the forefront of IT security....
Securing a financial services network environment can be a daunting challenge. At issue is not only meeting the basic business requirement of ensuring that a customer's financial information remains private and secure, but to do so in accordance with the variety of regulations that have been implemented by state and...
As more financial and commercial activity move online, banks are seeking to bolster consumer security and confidence. Gartner, in a 2008 report, reveals that most consumers consider security features extremely important factors that influence their decisions to bank online and do ...
In times of economic turmoil, weaknesses of risk management systems in financial institutions have become very apparent. Shortcomings are most evident in mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Implementing an intelligent credit risk management solution would enable financial institutions to...
Online banking is increasingly popular with financial institutions and customers alike. But to maximize the potential, institutions must overcome a major obstacle: identity theft.
To combat identity theft, many institutions now turn to strong authentication - a proactive security method that employs the use of more...
Managing IT risk is part of running any financial institution these days. Understanding IT risk can help you increase network security, reduce management costs and achieve greater compliance. Corporate leaders who fail to identify, assess and mitigate IT risk are setting themselves up for serious security breaches and...
The economy and Heartland.
There is no way you can look at the banking landscape in 2009 and not focus on these inextricably linked events.
Starting in the summer of 2008 with the shocking IndyMac Bank closure, the global recession has had a stranglehold on the financial services industry.
The Heartland...
Are you and your customers better off than you were a year ago?
This is the key question for banking/security leaders at the dawn of 2010. Emerging from a year in which financial institutions struggled with the economy, the Heartland Payment Systems breach and other attacks, as well as the ongoing challenges to...
What if your fraud detection solution could teach itself to identify new fraud patterns? That's adaptive modeling. A "bolt-on" adaptive modeling layer works as a secondary analytic layer with fraud detection systems that use past transactional and case disposition data to significantly improve fraud detection. The...
This white paper details how Tripwire IT security and compliance automation solutions help keep the IT infrastructure in a continuously PCI-compliant - and secure-state.
Tripwire Enterprise does this with a compliance policy for PCI, file integrity monitoring, real-time analysis of change and easy access to...
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