The best offense is a good defense, especially when it comes to fighting criminal hackers.
Dr. Markus Jakobsson, principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center and an adjunct associate professor at Indiana University, and Zulfikar Ramzan, a Senior Principal Researcher in the Advanced Threat Research Group at...
Ken Rijock is a former banking attorney at an international law firm. He's also a former money launderer.
He spent the 1980s as a money launderer and advisor to drug traffickers, until he was arrested and served a U.S. federal prison sentence for racketeering and money laundering. While serving his sentence, he...
Risk management and the insider threat.
These are the two dominant themes emerging from the conversations and presentations at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
From the keynote stage to the expo floor, with stops in between at the program sessions, information security experts, vendors and...
Imagine living in a country where electronic voting is universal, there are 39 million Internet users, and 25 million of them are also Internet banking users.
Welcome to Brazil, whose online banking services and lessons-learned were presented to attendees at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
According to Maria...
Bank of America is well known for its mobile banking services. Currently, the institution has 750,000 mobile banking customers receiving services on 400 different kinds of devices.
But did you realize that one of the ways BoA secures its electronic offerings is by providing its customers with abuse reporting...
The price tag for The TJX Companies, Inc.(NYSE: TJX) to settle with MasterCard and its card-issuing banks is $24 million. This settlement, announced this week, comes on the heels of the TJX settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in late March.
While many in the industry see the FTC's settlement (no fines, but...
What happens if your institution suffers an ATM skimming attack and customer accounts have been compromised? Or if a payments processor is hacked and thousands of your credit/debit cardholders are potentially exposed to fraud?
These aren't hypothetical breaches; they've occurred. Repeatedly. And they prove that an...
Of all the major areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, pandemic preparation is where financial institutions say they've done the least work. And yet it is the major focus of banking regulators, which in 2008 expect institutions to step up their pandemic preparation efforts.
In this interview, Regina...
Timing is everything, and March was the perfect time to focus on business continuity and disaster recovery.
On the heels of our State of Information Security survey, which showcased your main areas of concern (namely, pandemic preparation), March saw the release of important new guidance: the Federal Financial...
Interview With Emergency Management Expert Regina Phelps
Of all the major areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, pandemic preparation is where financial institutions say they've done the least work. And yet it is the major focus of banking regulators, which in 2008 expect institutions to step up their...
Think the pandemic threat isn't real, or that you needn't prepare a thorough plan to account for it? Your organization's regulators disagree. Pandemic planning is a significant regulatory requirement for every financial institution and a key component in government agency requirements. Register for this webinar to...
Howard Sprow, vice president of Business Continuity Planning for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is a long-time leader in emergency management issues in the financial services industry. Recently we interviewed him on SIFMA's work in business continuity and pandemic planning.
The hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Coast regions in the summer and fall of 2005 are nothing new to most people. The personal tragedies, loss of life and property were well documented by the national media.
But what about the story of one financial institution that weathered the storms and emerged intact - its...
Early in the evening on Tuesday, Feb. 5, a powerful storm system hit the Jackson, TN., area. A total of 79 confirmed tornadoes touched down in 10 states over the course of two days, killing 57 people. Among the local businesses hit hardest was Jackson's Union University branch of BancorpSouth, ($13 billion assets,...
There's a lot to think about beyond the security cameras, guards and locks. That's why we made physical security one of our earliest priorities this year, and why you should give it equal consideration.
Following is a recap of the physical security stories we've presented so far this year.
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