Several weeks ago, I was out with the rest of the Bedel Security staff on a strategic and team building exercise. During our meal we discovered a “vodka pairing” menu that the restaurant was working...

Qakbot (also known as Quakbot or Qbot) is a malware strain that has been used to attack financial institutions since 2008. It’s primary target is stealing bank credentials in order to enable wire...

Networks rely on encryption to ensure that data is kept private and cannot be changed while at rest or in transit. In most cases this encryption utilizes certificates, and these certificates in turn...

As most SolarWinds investigations have stabilized, it’s a good time to give the full report to your Board of Directors. They’ve hopefully been curious, and you’ve likely been giving them bits and...

Unless you had a really secluded and long holiday vacation, you’ve probably heard about the SolarWinds breach and how it has affected many US industries including financial institutions and their...

The worst fears of security experts became a reality recently when threat actors maliciously hid malware inside legitimate updates of SolarWinds network monitoring software. When the malware...

This is the time of year where, as business leaders, we get to assess the year that has passed and plan for the year to come. This article is not meant to be a broad recollection of all that’s...

When the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was implemented, each regulatory agency adopted a set of interagency guidelines and regulations required for compliance with the provisions of the Act. Within each of...

We are seeing findings related to change management cropping up in several audit reports this year. Appropriately scoping change management can be tricky in smaller financial institutions which do...

It’s easy in a year like 2020 to focus on what went wrong, what should have been, and what we’ve lost. I get caught in that trap more than I like to admit. But in a mindset absent of gratitude, we...