Organizations often face the task of trying to recover data from water-soaked hard disks or servers that have been flooded by hurricanes, bad weather, or even the sprinklers going off in the branch or building.
Rule one -- don't assume that data isn't recoverable, no matter what it has been through, says Jim...
This is a transcript of a recent webinar, Insider Threats - Safeguarding Enterprise Information Assets, sponsored by Imprivata. This session discusses the need and importance for convergence of physical and logical access control. To highlight the significance, Imprivata showcases their revolutionary product,...
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...
Resource allocation - the people, places and things - is one of the most overlooked aspects of Business Continuity planning.
In this exclusive interview, crime and information security expert Dana Turner offers insights on:
What resource allocation truly means for financial institutions;
Unique challenges...
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...
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has announced that the data breach that occurred back in May is much bigger than the 4.5 million records originally announced. The bank now says that another 8 million customers were affected by the breach, bringing the total figure to 12.5 million, which may make it the...
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 Crime/Security Expert Dana Turner
Resource allocation - the people, places and things - is one of the most overlooked aspects of Business Continuity planning.
In this exclusive interview, crime and information security expert Dana Turner offers insights on:
What resource allocation truly...
So, I'd started my weekly blog entry intending to discuss application security (I'm keenly interested in what the just-released BIS survey is going to reveal) when the following headline came across on my BIS RSS feed "Social Engineering Hits Brit Bank Head, Victim of Fraud."
You'll have to forgive me for being so...
A Wells Fargo bank access code was used to steal the personal information of roughly 5,000 consumers, leading the bank to conduct a full-scale inquiry into the data breach.
Wells Fargo says it was notified on July 1 by MicroBilt, an online consumer and commercial credit bureau information provider, that someone had...
Gramm-Leach-Bliley - it's at the heart of every financial institution's security program. In this exclusive interview, Nathan Johns, formerly of the FDIC, discusses current GLBA compliance trends, including:
Where institutions are most challenged to meet compliance;
Where they are seeing successes;
Vendor...
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their customers and critical financial/informational...
To me, it was a given.
In the wake of recent news of IndyMac and other bank failures, it seemed safe to say that U.S. banking institutions were dealing with a bit of a crisis of confidence. I mean, I didn't imagine that line of anxious customers outside IndyMac, did I?
But then I got a recent note from a...
Interview with Cyber Crime Expert Eric Fiterman
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their...
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