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Three Critical Challenges for Bank Audit Committees - #1: Cybersecurity
Because Cybersecurity is a business issue, not just an IT issue, the risk that it brings should be addressed by all areas of the financial...
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Need Ideas for Incident Response Testing? Look no Further than the FDIC Cyber Challenges
Incident Response testing is critical. A lot of banks are doing it, but some still aren't. It is required to achieve Baseline maturity in the 2015...
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Consider the Importance of Forensics in your Ransomware Response Plan
It was during an incident response test with a client that this topic came up. The scenario was something like this: Ransomware infects several...
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77% of Banks Surveyed List Cybersecurity as an Area of Concern, CISO Plays Important Role
The survey was conducted in January of 2016 by BankDirector.com where they asked executives and board members at 161 different financial institutions...
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Announcing the Launch of BEDELsecurity.com!
We are in the security business. So "SECURITY" should be in the name, right? When I first started on my own, I was a little afraid to get specific on...
Setting and Achieving Realistic Information Security Program Goals for 2016
I love this article by Kevin Beaver on goals for your ISP. Although it's already the end of March, it is applicable at any time of the year because...
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More about the Virtual CISO (vCISO) Role
What is a Virtual CISO (vCISO)? Keeping your information security and cybersecurity programs up to snuff can be difficult for community banks. Having...
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Got Ransomware? An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: 5 Things You Can Do
Ransomware is a very scary thing for community banks. I have a couple clients that have had to go toe-to-toe with it and were fortunate enough to...
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The 1 Thing that is Getting Overlooked by Banks on Secure Email
Dan Hadaway, with Infotex, goes into great detail on the risks associated with misconfiguration of "secure" email in one of his recent blog posts. He...
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Hackers are Leveraging Previous Breach Data to Attack Banks
Ever wonder why social engineering attacks are on the rise?