Oregon state agencies are coming together to develop a centralized plan, ending a previously siloed approach, to simplify compliance with Internal Revenue Service rules to safeguard taxpayer data, says state CISO Theresa Masse.
With the extension of ENISA's mandate into 2013 by the European Parliament & Council, the agency can continue to educate and collaborate with other nations on cybersecurity issues, an area of constant importance.
Though IT business application functions and security-focused practices are expected to be integrated as a single process, secure configuration is the management and control of configurations for information systems to enable security and facilitate the management of information security risk.
With the release of the new FFIEC Authentication Guidance, the need for effective strategies to mitigate known online risks has never been greater for banking institutions. Effective authentication methods also ensure institutions conform to new risk management and assessment requirements.
"You can do everything, but if you forget to change the keylocks on your dispensers, then you can be breached," says Gray Taylor, security expert at the National Association of Convenience Stores.
"If left unaddressed," GAO says, "these issues will continue to increase FDIC's risk that its sensitive and financial information will be subject to unauthorized disclosure, modification or destruction."
NICE leader Ernest McDuffie says NIST is soliciting feedback from other citizens and organizations to improve the planning process for the comprehensive national education and awareness campaign.
According to FINRA, Citi's negligence in adequately supervising Tamara Moon, a former sales assistant at a Citi branch in Palo Alto, Calif., resulted in $749,978 being skimmed from the accounts of 22 Citi customers.
"There are still a lot of inexperienced people out there that are passing themselves off as experts," says Scott Laliberte, managing director of Protiviti, outlining the common challenges of penetration testing.
The state has been without a fulltime chief information security officer since Mark Weatherford left last summer to become vice president and chief security officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corp.
As fraud continues to evolve and affect financial institutions, careers are plentiful for fraud-fighting professionals, says Jean-Francois Legault, a fraud investigations specialist with Deloitte and Touche.
"The consequences of computer hacks are much different than they used to be," says cybersecurity expert Joseph Steinberg, following the sentencing of three convicted fraudsters.
"I don't think there's any connection [to] the investments banks will make in fraud prevention," says Doug Johnson of the ABA. "It's not about making budget cuts; it's about protecting the customer relationship and ensuring security."
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