The Bedel Security Blog

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‘Tis the Season for Tax Scams

Every year, thousands of people fall victim to tax-related phishing scams. As with most intrusions, it only takes one click on a fraudulent link to...

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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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Meaningful Governance

Most information security professionals understand the compliance and business requirements of keeping management informed of the Information...

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Log4Shell Response for Community Financial Institutions

This post is intended to help community financial institutions appropriately prioritize their response efforts to the Log4Shell vulnerability. If...

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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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Multi-factor Authentication Threats Heat Up

Just a few months ago, we wrote an article about the dangers of using SMS (text) to support multi-factor authentication (MFA), called Breaking the...

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Training Your Board

Being on the board of a financial institution is not easy. Board members are expected to not only be knowledgeable about the operational and...

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vCISO Questions and Answers 14: What do examiners say? What kind of due diligence should we do on a vCISO?

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vCISO Questions and Answers 13: What should you look for in a provider? What does a typical contract look like?