Brian Petzold

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Regulators Becoming More Prescriptive

Recently, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) released a proposed update to its 2017 “Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies" law (also known as “23 NYCRR 500”). While the law only applies to organizations that...

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Self-Assessing Authentication & Access Risk

A little over a year ago, banking regulators released the “Authentication and Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems” guidance. Since...

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Where Does Managing Aggregator Risk Belong?

A little over a year ago, bank regulators published new proposed guidance on managing third-party risk. One of the more controversial topics in this...

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Confessions of a Professional Worrier

A few weeks ago, in my life outside of cybersecurity, a person said to me: “You are always thinking three steps ahead of the rest of us”. I am not...

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Questions For Your Internet Banking Provider

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Questions You Should Be Asking Your Internet Banking Provider

Financial institutions are required to regularly assess the authentication controls, security layers, and monitoring of Internet Banking to prepare...

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MFA Enrollment Mistakes

Most financial institutions understand the importance of Multifactor Authentication (MFA) in keeping unauthorized parties from gaining access to user...

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Is Your Risk Assessment Authentication & Access Ready?

In August, the FFIEC released new guidance titled “Authentication and Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems”. Because the guidance...

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Backups vs. Retention

We often run into situations where different staff in an institution have different understandings of the goals and operations of their backup...

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Tricky Phish Testing

Phishing remains one of the top threats to organizations today. Every user regularly receives emails designed to trick them into clicking on a link,...

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