Employee background checks - they're the first line of defense against the insider threat. And increasingly financial institutions are performing these investigations - or outsourcing them - as a means of screening applicants for jobs involving access to sensitive information of transactions.
The key driver behind...
Best-Practices for Getting Across the Right Messages
The board members at a financial institution are responsible for oversight and implementation of a sound security program, including the overall guidance and direction of setting a cultural value related to risk awareness, driving policy and strategy, defining a...
Expertise and Interactivity Key to Developing a Collaborative Security Education ProgramThe perspective on information security changed forever on September 11, 2001. From being a check box response on a training attendee sheet or just a mandatory requirement, security training awareness education has today...
In this Information Security Media Group podcast Mark Lobel of PriceWaterhouseCoopers speaks to our audience and updates on recent trends in info security and the importance of effective benchmarking.
Mark Lobel is a nationally known expert in information security who leads the PriceWaterhouseCoopers annual survey...
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,...
Do you see pieces of paper in your organization with usernames or passwords?
Do you see employee desks with customer sensitive files and data lying on them with no one around?
Do you see employee trashcans containing sensitive customer information?
Do you see employees opening an email from someone they don't...
Information Security Media Group hears from Joyce Brocaglia, a leading information security recruiter and her thoughts on how the role of the CISO is evolving in companies and how corporate culture is shifting focus to the "risk strategic" role.
Brocaglia discusses the differences between a technically focused CISO...
John Smith, VP Technical Services at an Investment Bank was interviewing a senior information security professional on the phone last month in April, 2007 during the phone interview the candidate suddenly requested John to be on hold as another call was coming through.
A checklist for professionals aspiring to be Leaders and Security Rock Stars
Love What You Do - Have a passion for information security. Do not consider getting in the field because earning potential is high or because your friend is in security.
Once an isolated planet, information security has now become a universe in itself! Today, security is acknowledged as an integral component for corporate success leading to the increase in demand for highly-skilled security professionals. A recent study conducted by IDC for the International Information Systems...
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