The Bedel Security Blog

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Sheltered Harbor: New Concept? Or Should You Be Doing This Stuff Already?

Several of our banking clients have reached out to us in the past couple weeks to ask our thoughts on Sheltered Harbor. My guess is that the common...

Bank Director :: Are Directors Tone Deaf on Cybersecurity?

Are the boards of directors at U.S. banks taking the cybersecurity threat seriously enough?

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Lack of Security Awareness Playing a Key Role in Ransomware Attacks

The CyberEdge Group released its fourth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report earlier this month, and it should come as no surprise that ransomware was a...

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How Can Banks Help Customers Stop BEC?

We’ve all heard about BEC, and many of us have seen it impact our financial institutions first hand. Business Email Compromise (BEC), also known as...

Cybersecurity: What the Best Banks Do to Protect Themselves

The hack of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial giants in 2014, which involved the theft of 80 million customer records, revealed an unfortunate...

Banks Have the Capital to Buy Fintech Startups — Will They?

Banks are entering what could well be a golden age — deregulation, rising interest rates, and a bevy of fintech startups eager to hop into bed with...

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When a Returned Wire isn’t Just a Returned Wire

[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="672"] Recently, the Wire Department at a client of ours noted an unusual event where $5,000 had...

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Why was it so Quiet in the Fourth Quarter?

[caption id="attachment_714" align="alignnone" width="672"] It’s good to be back on the blog. My last post was on September 28, 2016, which means I...

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Password Managers: Single Point of Failure, or a Necessity for a Secure Enterprise? (part 1)

Recently, I've been hearing many references to password managers in the various podcasts I listen to and blog posts I read.