Brian Petzold

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Discussions Triggered from the LastPass Breach

Over the past month, many have written about the latest LastPass breach. If you have not kept up with the breach, you can see the disclosure from LastPass here. Since the breach was publicized, there has been a lot of focus on not only the LastPass...

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Regulators Becoming More Prescriptive

Recently, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) released a proposed update to its 2017 “Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial...

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Self-Assessing Authentication & Access Risk

A little over a year ago, banking regulators released the “Authentication and Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems” guidance. Since...

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Where Does Managing Aggregator Risk Belong?

A little over a year ago, bank regulators published new proposed guidance on managing third-party risk. One of the more controversial topics in this...

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Confessions of a Professional Worrier

A few weeks ago, in my life outside of cybersecurity, a person said to me: “You are always thinking three steps ahead of the rest of us”. I am not...

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Questions For Your Internet Banking Provider

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Questions You Should Be Asking Your Internet Banking Provider

Financial institutions are required to regularly assess the authentication controls, security layers, and monitoring of Internet Banking to prepare...

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MFA Enrollment Mistakes

Most financial institutions understand the importance of Multifactor Authentication (MFA) in keeping unauthorized parties from gaining access to user...

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Is Your Risk Assessment Authentication & Access Ready?

In August, the FFIEC released new guidance titled “Authentication and Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems”. Because the guidance...

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Backups vs. Retention

We often run into situations where different staff in an institution have different understandings of the goals and operations of their backup...

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