Interview with Jennifer Bayuk, Former CISO at Bear Stearns & Co.
Governance is a term increasingly used in financial institutions, as banking/security leaders try to introduce new processes and disciplines to their organizations.
In this exclusive interview, Jennifer Bayuk, an information security specialist...
Brian Dean is Senior Vice President in the Privacy Department at Ohio-based Key Bank with assets under management of approximately $102 billion. A privacy professional for over eight years, Dean has long worked with Key management to begin the convergence journey. He refined this vision as an adjunct professor at a...
Information Security Media Group (ISMG), publisher of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfosecurity.com, recently posed a few questions to Debbie Wheeler, Chief Information Security Officer for Fifth Third Bancorp headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with approximately $111 billion in assets under management. In her current...
So, I'd started my weekly blog entry intending to discuss application security (I'm keenly interested in what the just-released BIS survey is going to reveal) when the following headline came across on my BIS RSS feed "Social Engineering Hits Brit Bank Head, Victim of Fraud."
You'll have to forgive me for being so...
The Topeka, Kansas Columbian Bank and Trust Company ($752 million assets) has been closed by the Kansas Bank Commissioner, and the FDIC has been named receiver. The Citizens Bank and Trust, Chillicothe, MO acquired the insured deposits of the Topeka, KS bank.
The nine branches of The Columbian Bank and Trust...
With the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance date creeping closer, we contacted several banking institutions from around the country for their insights on keeping an information security training program robust and interesting.
We all know that employee and customer awareness are a big part of Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance. But what exactly is missing from banking institutions' current awareness programs, which must meet the new standards by Nov. 1?
We recently caught up with representatives of banking regulatory agencies to...
It must have just ruined his "holiday" or vacation when Andy Hornby, the head of British bank HBOS got the call from his own fraud investigators last week that his personal bank account had been breached.
The HBOS plc Group, which encompasses The Halifax and Bank of Scotland, is the UK's largest mortgage and...
To quote from his own biography, Eugene H. Spafford is one of the most senior and recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has an on-going record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a number of major...
A Wells Fargo bank access code was used to steal the personal information of roughly 5,000 consumers, leading the bank to conduct a full-scale inquiry into the data breach.
Wells Fargo says it was notified on July 1 by MicroBilt, an online consumer and commercial credit bureau information provider, that someone had...
Maybe the Countrywide television ads that constantly run on cable news shows I watch on weekends will now tout, "Finance your mortgage with Countrywide, and have your identity stolen at the same time for mere pennies."
The recent arrest of a former Countrywide employee in the insider identity theft case, where an...
"Whitelisting" is a new twist on information security. Instead of trying to find a software solution that keeps all of the potential bad guys out of your systems, whitelisting allows you to establish a protection layer that grants access to only your finite list of good guys - individuals or applications.
In this...
The OTS released their examination procedures this past week for the looming ID Theft Red Flags requirements due to go into effect in 75 days (not that I'm counting). In discussing this both with members of our management team and fellow practitioners, I'm finding that there's a decided split as to what the impact is...
Gramm-Leach-Bliley - it's at the heart of every financial institution's security program. In this exclusive interview, Nathan Johns, formerly of the FDIC, discusses current GLBA compliance trends, including:
Where institutions are most challenged to meet compliance;
Where they are seeing successes;
Vendor...
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their customers and critical financial/informational...
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