Community banks often face the dilemma of designating their CIO, CTO, IT Officer, IT Manager, or even a Managed Service Provider (MSP) as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). It’s a...

When I was first asked to join John Iannarelli (aka “FBI John”), a former FBI agent, for a discussion at the Indiana Bankers Association Annual Convention, I felt a mixture of excitement and...

If you keep up with the banking industry, then you’ve certainly heard about the significant events in the past several months bringing a lot of attention to fintech, specifically Banking as a...

“Change is the only constant.”–Greek philosopher Heraclitus I’ve been involved in lots of conversations about change in the past week. “This AI stuff is going to change everything.” “I’m...

How are we going to do this? As leaders in the banking industry, we often find ourselves saying those exact words. We want to be self-reliant—and why not? We’ve gotten where we are today by...

Being the founder and CEO of a virtual CISO firm, I get asked questions about professional development from time to time. How do I advance my career in cybersecurity management? How do we grow our...

This blog post is intended for anyone managing a chief information security officer (CISO) or looking to fill the CISO role. This might also be helpful if you're a CISO, and you feel like this is...

Recently we’ve received a number of requests for “Key Controls” from auditors or examiners for the financial institutions we work with. Fortunately, for those that have our Risk Management module,...

In today's video, we're going to explain what it means to be independent and qualified and why it's so important for an ISO or CISO to be both. {% video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False,...

I recently had the opportunity to attend, and speak at, the Southeast Community Bank I.T. Rightsourcing Conference in Georgia. It was a great 1-day event with speakers representing various areas of...