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Achieving Compliance with Massachusetts Data Protection Act

As of March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both paper and electronic records containing personal information. These requirements include enforcing password security,...

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RSA Special Online Fraud Report: What to Expect in 2010

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...

Defeating Man-in-the-Browser: How to Prevent the Latest Malware Attacks against Consumer & Corporate Banking

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...

25 Best Practices for Managing User Access to Desktops, Networks, and Applications to Ensure Regulatory Compliance

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...

Credit Risk Management: Challenges & Opportunities in Turbulent Times

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...

Regulatory Compliance: Global Privacy, Disclosure, & Encryption Issues

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....

Confidence in Commerce

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...

Top Online Banking Threats to Financial Service Providers in 2010

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...

The Future of Authentication for Online Financial Services

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 ...

Next Generation Log & Event Management

Knowing what changes have been made to your IT infrastructure is vital, particularly when they are unauthorized. Identifying any suspicious events is also paramount. Read this white paper to learn more about an all-in-one log and event management solution that provides real-time visibility into all threatening...

How Can Fraud Models Combat New Tricks?

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...

Automated, Continuous PCI Compliance

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...

The State of Mobile Security in Banking & Financial Transactions

Many financial institutions today are incorporating mobile banking and financial services as consumers increasingly turn to their mobile devices to conduct everyday tasks. Despite the convenience of doing business this way, the majority of consumers are reluctant to try mobile banking because of perceived security...

Putting a Wide-Angle Lens on Fraud

Fraud patterns shift as fast as you can implement new anti-theft systems. Your fraud profiling needs to go beyond cardholder profiling. Global Profiling is a new technology that enables fraud systems to profile entities such as ATMs, merchants, point-of-sale terminals, mobile phone kiosks and other entities. By...

The State of Resilience on IBM Power Systems

Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Users This report includes the input of over 4,000 companies during 2009 that run AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments, focusing on data protection and recovery technologies/strategies. Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the often conflicting...