Richard Swart: Hi, this is Richard Swart with Information Security Media Group, publishers of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfoSecurity.com. Today we'll be speaking with Mark Lobel, an internationally recognized security and internals control professional who is a partner in information security practice at Price...
When talking about data breaches and the need for security, whenever credit or debit cards are mentioned, the words "Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards" will appear. This apparently causes many in the financial services and retail industries to reach for that bottle of aspirin and a glass of water....
Information about the threats of identity theft seem to be everywhere -- media headlines, websites, billboards, television ads, and your financial institution has probably warned its customers of the problem.
The real question is – how bad is the problem? When you compare studies and reports, it can yield...
Employees play an integral role in protecting the assets of an institution, and as such, need to be adequately trained and made aware of the basic security practices which are frequently overlooked. A set-it and forget-it approach "we're protected because we have a firewall" to information security ignores end-users,...
While consumers like the convenience of online banking, financial institutions need to be prepared to mitigate certain risks that may expose consumer information, says a leading authority on data security and privacy.
The deadline of June 30th has come and gone, and thousands of companies have demonstrated that they are incapable of complying with a set of security guidelines to prevent data breaches and protect credit card data against identity theft. These security guidelines are from the Payment Card Industry (PCI).
When you think about the number of PIN numbers, passwords, or passphrases you use every day: getting money from the ATM or using your debit card in a store, logging on to your computer or email, signing in to an online bank account or shopping cart...the list seems to just keep getting longer.
The science fiction movies from the 1960s had talking computers that interacted with humans. That was considered a far-fatched idea in its time, but the current state of technology for voice biometrics and voice recognition has brought the standard up to a level where banks, including major international entities as...
In what is being described as a “wow†product in the growing line of multi factor authentication products being developed to meet increased regulation for stronger authentication, VeriSign Inc., announced its partnership with Innovative Card Technologies, Inc., the developer of the ICT DisplayCard, to...
The FDIC’s Information Technology Risk Management Program (IT-RMP), used by FDIC examiners in the examination process of financial institutions, will be looking more closely at the way financial institutions choose, oversee, and document their technology service providers and how those technology service...
Pete Boergermann - BankInfoSecurity.com Contributor Gone are the days when we could just throw a hub on a closet shelf, run a few network cables, connect some PCs and a server to it and have a network. Logs? What logs? Why would we want to look at them? Times have changed and most devices connected to your network...
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