I have issues with weak passwords and easy to guess answers for challenge questions on password resets. This was Sarah Palin's (Republican vice presidential candidate)apparent problem with her personal Yahoo! email account. It only took a Google search and some thought on a young hacker's part to find out the...
I was presenting at a credit union conference this week, where the session before mine covered current economic conditions. The timing was perfect in a macabre sort of way, as the 24 hours prior were filled with news about the Merrill Lynch rescue and Lehman Brothers collapse. As part of the Q&A phase, a prediction...
To quote from his own biography, Eugene H. Spafford is one of the most senior and recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has an on-going record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a number of major...
I can't say enough about the mud slinging and finger pointing being done during the continuing mortgage crisis. It is getting ugly out there. Even the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now under the watchful conservatorship eye of the federal regulators, as the mortgage foreclosures top...
Career opportunities abound for people interested in entering information security as an entry-level or mid-career position.
In this exclusive interview, Matt Bishop, Professor of Computer Science at UC-Davis, discusses:
His current projects, including vulnerability analysis and the insider threat;...
Sahba Kazerooni is a senior security consultant with Security Compass, a security consulting and training firm specializing in application security based in New Jersey. He is also an internationally-renowned speaker on security topics, and has provided presentations at security conferences around the world, including...
What's the most important factor in signing off information security projects at a bank? For Jon Pascoe, Director of Information Security at Arvest Bank located in Arkansas, the highest consideration is adequately protecting customer data and information and reaching higher standards in safeguarding confidential...
To me, this is one of the sleeper stories of the year.
The ID Theft Red Flags Rule, Business Continuity and Anti-Money Laundering have dominated the headlines - and banking/security priorities. But recent attention paid to Application Security has the potential to fuel one major fire drill in 2009.
When I started this job a year ago and reached out to banking/security leaders, the overwhelming message I got was "Security awareness - we don't do it well."
For banking institution employees, maybe there was an information security training seminar when they first started. Or an occasional workshop on identity...
Governance is a term increasingly used in financial institutions, as banking/security leaders try to introduce new processes and disciplines to their organizations.
In this exclusive interview, Jennifer Bayuk, an information security specialist and former CISO at Bear Stearns & Co., discusses:
What governance...
As financial institutions scramble to meet the Nov. 1 deadline for Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance, the operative word is "prevention" - as in Identity Theft Prevention Program.
And the key to making prevention work, observers say, is a sound customer awareness program that goes beyond statement stuffers...
Everyone was watching the Olympics this past month and saw lots of records being broken. But there is one record no one want to be included in -- the record number of 449 data breaches that have happened (and been made public) and recorded by the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Unfortunately for some unlucky...
Interview with Matt Bishop, Professor of Computer Science, UC-Davis
Career opportunities abound for people interested in entering information security as an entry-level or mid-career position.
In this exclusive interview, Matt Bishop, Professor of Computer Science at UC-Davis, discusses:
His current...
GLBA who? Bank Secrecy what? Insider Threat?...is that something mob-related?
Your customers may not even know your institution is examined for security compliance by the banking regulatory agencies, and so most likely will have never even heard about the ID Theft Red Flags Rule and the impending November 1 ...
Interview With AML Expert Ross Delston
Anti-money laundering has been one of the dominant stories in financial services this year, and the trend isn't likely to abate anytime soon.
In this exclusive interview, attorney and AML expert Ross Delston discusses:
The latest AML trends, including Trade-Based...
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