Whether it's from treacherous insiders stealing data or malicious cybercriminals hacking into company resources, financial institutions face risk from both inside and outside the organization. While each side of the coin poses unique threats, the financial sector can minimize the double-sided risks with very similar...
With great advantages come great responsibilities. As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users' workday processes, they have also exposed their organizations to three enormous risks: data loss, data theft and malware propagation.
Learn how removable device policy enforcement can...
As of March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both paper and electronic records containing personal information.
These requirements include enforcing password security,...
Managing IT risk is part of running any financial institution these days. Understanding IT risk can help you increase network security, reduce management costs and achieve greater compliance. Corporate leaders who fail to identify, assess and mitigate IT risk are setting themselves up for serious security breaches and...
Of all the compliance regulations, mandates and guidelines, you're most likely to encounter PCI. Any vendor, organization, entity, group, business, etc., that accepts and processes credit cards falls under the PCI requirements standard and is subject to its audit cycles.
PCI DSS covers a range of physical and...
Most organizations spend 30-50% more on compliance than they should 1. No matter the industry, with regulations such as GLBA, PCI, FISMA, SOX, and other regulations and mandates, it seems nobody is immune to scrutiny - but why spend so much more than what is necessary? In order to reduce the burden of an IT audit,...
As USB devices have evolved into useful storage media, they've also turned into a security nightmare for agencies.
The usage of USB devices should be encouraged and embraced to improve productivity, but they also must be managed to minimize the risks inherent with these tools.
This paper discusses how USB...
Information security experts are bracing for the law of unintended consequences to swing into action in 2009 as layoffs, downsizing and low morale bring the worst out of trusted insiders looking to profit off of proprietary intellectual property, customer contact lists, trade secrets and any other sensitive...
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