Howard Schmidt, a recognized information security thought leader, offers exclusive insights as new president of the Information Security Forum.
Schmidt, a household name in information security circles since his days as CISO and information security leader at Microsoft and eBay, discusses the global war against...
Leading Technology Vendor Discusses the Need for Vulnerability Assessments & Remediation Processes for Applications Whether Developed In-House or By a Third-Party
Application security is a key focus of regulatory agencies - ensuring that financial institutions pay as much attention to third-party applications as...
Sahba Kazerooni is a senior security consultant with Security Compass, a security consulting and training firm specializing in application security based in New Jersey. He is also an internationally-renowned speaker on security topics, and has provided presentations at security conferences around the world, including...
The recent release of a University of Michigan study on the security flaws of online banking websites brings attention to the often overlooked area of web application security.
In this exclusive interview, Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security shares his insights on the importance of web application security for...
Mobile banking, Web 2.0, remote check capture - they're among the emerging technologies that appeal most to banking institutions. The key driver: the chance to offer more services to customers, and also cut costs through the further automation of banking transactions.
We recently spoke with leaders of the top...
During March 2006, Mexican banking authorities established the use of a second factor authentication based on "dynamically generated information" -- in addition to username and password -- as a requirement for doing monetary operations through e-banking systems. This regulation allowed the use of one-time access code...
Risk management and the insider threat.
These are the two dominant themes emerging from the conversations and presentations at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
From the keynote stage to the expo floor, with stops in between at the program sessions, information security experts, vendors and...
Bank of America is well known for its mobile banking services. Currently, the institution has 750,000 mobile banking customers receiving services on 400 different kinds of devices.
But did you realize that one of the ways BoA secures its electronic offerings is by providing its customers with abuse reporting...
Imagine living in a country where electronic voting is universal, there are 39 million Internet users, and 25 million of them are also Internet banking users.
Welcome to Brazil, whose online banking services and lessons-learned were presented to attendees at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
According to Maria...
Interviews Shed Light on Topics of Unique Interest to Banking/Security Executives
The annual RSA Conference is a showplace for the who's who of security solutions vendors. The event showroom is lined with scores of the industry's leading vendors - no one individual could hope to see them all.
So, the Information...
If there's one single notion common to financial institutions of all sizes, it is confidence -the need to have shared trust with employees, partners and especially customers. Without this confidence, banking institutions cannot succeed.
And if there's one common theme emerging from the inaugural State of Banking...
Breach is a Warning to All Financial InstitutionsThe announcement by online brokerage TD Ameritrade that a database had been breached reinforces an important lesson to other financial institutions: Know your systems and who’s accessing them.On Sept. 14, Ameritrade went public with the news that it had...
CA Bill Would Make Bad Security Costly To Retailers Move over data breach notification laws: There’s a tough new bill in town, under which banks and credit unions could get money back from breached retailers that didn’t do right in protecting credit or debit card information. This new data breach...
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...
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