The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity credentials to allow physical and logical access to Federal government locations and systems. The Personal Identity Verification (PIV) standard for Federal Employees and Contractors,...
Information systems capture, process, and store information using a wide variety of media. This information is located not only on the intended storage media but also on devices used to create, process, or transmit this information. This media may require special disposition in order to mitigate the risk of...
While the “human element” of information security may be easy to ignore; ignoring it is also dangerous and costly. Of this there is ample evidence.
This report presents an organizational security approach that corporate security managers can use as a roadmap to initiate an effective employee security awareness...
Goals Of This Presentation
-An overview of how Vulnerability Assessment (VA) & Penetration T An overview of how Vulnerability Assessment (VA) & Penetration Testing (PT) is esting (PT) is done
-Defining scope of the assessment Defining scope of the assessment
-Types of Penetration Testing Types of Penetration...
This white paper identifies the products and architecture's needed to aid in the process of procuring the following:
-Identifying *Possible* Attack Vectors
-Reasearching and discovering system vulnerabilities
-Exploitating found Vulnerabilities
-Preparaing Test Cases
-Compilating Final Security Testing...
Strong authentication based on X.509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is available in a number of protocols and provides both security and administrative benefits and drawbacks. This paper looks at the security and administrative benefits (and drawbacks) of using strong authentication. This paper looks at generic...
Organizations publish information online including confidential data. Data is rendered in varied formats; it can vary from simple HTML pages to documents in Adobe's PDF or Microsoft's Word/Excel formats. Confidential data is restricted to a set of users who have to login and be authenticated on the website. A common...
This paper discusses and analyzes the internet-based, password reset functionality provided by many organizations for their customers. The average application user is being forced to remember more and more complex passwords to accomplish their daily routines. The very nature of complex passwords, sometimes results in...
What are the driving forces behind the rise of malware? Who’s behind it, and what tactics do they use? How are vendors responding, and what should organizations, researchers, and end users keep in mind for the upcoming future? These and many other questions will be discussed in this article, combining security...
The financial services industry increasingly relies on information technology (IT) service providers
(“Service Providers”) to support the delivery of financial services. This shift in the delivery of
financial services, coupled with the deployment of new and dynamic technologies, has resulted in
heightened...
I. OVERVIEW
According to the August 2004 U.S. Secret Service and CERT® Coordination Center’s Insider
Threat Study: Illicit Cyber Activity in the Banking and Finance Sector:
… (The fact that) over one quarter of the insiders had a criminal record prior to their
incidents underscores the importance of looking...
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Check fraud is a growing industry problem. Nearly 20 percent of super-regional banks incurred more
than $20 million in check fraud-related operating expenses in 2001.1 In order to enable the industry
to resolve breach of presentment warranty claims expeditiously and in a way that is fair,...
INTRODUCTION
This Consumer Confidence Toolkit provides information to support consumer
confidence in the safety, soundness and security of financial services. Special
attention is placed on online financial services transacted through the Internet.
Data in support of the safety of online financial transactions are...
This white paper discusses some actions financial institutions can take to make consumers more comfortable with online banking:
· Put consumer education about security and fraud prevention in a prominent place on your institution’s website home page.
· Establish a single point of contact within your...
Financial institutions must maintain a high level of trust and integrity in order for e-business to grow to the fullest extent possible, embracing new technologies. The trust of financial services customers derives from the integrity of the industry’s infrastructure and information technology practices. Security is...
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