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.
I would not want to be a financial institution in the state of Texas these days. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has started aggressively enforcing two Texas identity theft laws.
Financial institutions are just like every other business, they produce mounds of paper and trash, the thing financial institutions...
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 planned pandemic exercise for the financial services sector already has more than 650 institutions signed up since registration opened on July 20. Sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department, the national pandemic exercise scheduled for September 24 through October 12 will be operated by the Financial Services...
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...
In mid July the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took a major step in implementing its system for credentialing public and private sector first responders by conducting a demonstration in Washington, D.C., and other cities across the U.S.
The development of a credentialing system has been a key objective...
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...
How prepared is your financial institution in the event a pandemic hits? Financial institutions may now register to participate in the pandemic flu exercise for the financial services sector. From September 24 through October 12, the Financial Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC) and the Financial...
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...
RICHARD SWART: Well, could you please explain for our listeners your responsibilities as the Deputy Director for Outreach and Awareness for the National Cyber Security Division, and also, how do you interact with the banking and finance community?
ROB PATE: Our job at NCSD is to help government agencies,...
RICHARD SWART: Could you tell us a little bit more about your role in the FDIC and could you explain how the FDIC is tracking cyberfraud? DAVID NELSON: Sure. Recently, I have become more of an analyst. Before, I was an examiner, as you well know, but now, I've turned into more of an analyst, where I review a lot of...
The latest disclosure of a data breach involving financial information points up the need for a comprehensive response program, including complying with federal and state notification laws. Fidelity National Information Services revealed in July that a former employee of its Certegy check processing unit stole...
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