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Managing Facebook Accounts for Financial Institutions
In today’s world, social media is a powerful tool for businesses of all types, including financial institutions. But with power comes responsibility...
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Best Practices to Ace Your Penetration Test
Every institution should have an internal penetration test performed annually. The goal of the penetration test is for the tester to try to gain...
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Fortifying the Vault: Unveiling Data Protection Strategies for Financial Institutions
Welcome to the high-stakes world of banking, where every transaction is a delicate dance of digits, and the protection of sensitive data is...
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Five Findings from the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report
I was reviewing the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report this week and wanted to share some findings I found interesting. This report is...
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Is Your M365 Conditional Access Unconditional?
As attackers are finding new ways to get around multifactor authentication in Microsoft 365, conditional access is becoming more important....
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Business Email Compromise: Attacks Immune to Multi-Factor Authentication
They’ve come back around…those business email compromises, which were all too common in the late 2010s.
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“Banking” on Zero Trust: An Essential Shift in Cybersecurity
Ever heard Rick Howard's analogy of networks being like M&M candies? Imagine a hard exterior shell but with a soft, less secure core. Traditional...
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Cloud Security Challenges
As financial institutions increasingly embrace the benefits of cloud computing, the importance of cloud security cannot be understated. While the...
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Addressing the MOVEit Vulnerability: Actions for Financial Institutions
Financial institutions rely on numerous third-party providers to support their operations and deliver essential services. However, these partnerships...
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The What, Why, and How of Complementary User Entity Controls
Reviewing Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs) is an important part of any financial institution’s third-party management program. However, we...