What are the key banking/security topics on the minds of leaders of the nation's largest banks?
At the RSA Conference 2010, Paul Smocer of BITS and the Financial Services Roundtable discusses:
The Roundtable's information security priorities;
How regulatory reform may impact security organizations;
The...
As more financial and commercial activity move online, banks are seeking to bolster consumer security and confidence. Gartner, in a 2008 report, reveals that most consumers consider security features extremely important factors that influence their decisions to bank online and do ...
Passwords are the bane of my existence -- probably yours, too. In order to be a good, secure, computer and Internet user, ideally I should have a different password for every single application I use, website I register to, and place I visit on the Internet. I frequently have at least 10 to 15 different passwords and...
It's a never-ending battle -- the list of naughty and downright evil security threats that challenge financial institutions and security professionals.
From organized crime to SQL injection, here are the experts' choices of eight major security threats to watch in 2010.
Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative...
After fingerprints, iris recognition is the second most supported biometric characteristic, and its popularity as a means of authentication is growing.
Patrick Grother is among the computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory who are collaborating...
Months before announcing the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach, company CEO Robert Carr told industry analysts that the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was an insufficient protective measure.
This is the contention of a new master complaint filed in the class action suit against...
The next version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), due out some time in 2010, may include guidelines for the use of virtualization technology to protect card data.
This was the prediction of some industry leaders meeting at the Payment Card Industry's Security Standards Council...
It's been an interesting year for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
In the middle of it all is a debate among payment card companies, banking institutions, merchants, industry groups and even congressional leaders, questioning the merit of the standard and all hinting at the same open question: What...
Critical approaches to affordable fraud detection
Financial institutions are offering more and more online and self-service applications, as well as expanding the methods that consumers can use to access these applications.
But with the constant addition of new banking applications and access methods, financial...
The news story going around about the couple that was granted permission to sue their bank because of lackluster security measures interests me in a few different ways.
Each RBAC implementation varies in its capabilities and method of management.
In a multi-platform environment, these differences introduce higher administration hours and costs because the various RBAC models are not consistent in administration and operation methodology. The differences among these implementations...
Do you truly know who's accessing your critical information systems?
The Heartland data breach and Countrywide insider crime remind us: These systems are vulnerable to malicious attacks from outside and within the institution.
And recent consolidations and mergers within the industry also underscore the...
In today's banking world, the importance of a comprehensive, reliable and scalable security infrastructure has never been greater. Thales HSMs have been used for over 25 years by a large number of banks worldwide mainly to protect customer PINs during credit and debit card transaction processing.
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