Brian Petzold

Bank executive reading the Bedel Security blog on her desktop.

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Reviewing the New Interagency Third-Party Risk Management Guidance

On June 6th, the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC released new interagency guidance on third-party risk management. The new guidance, based on existing OCC guidance from 2013 and 2020, calls for a level of due diligence that might be a surprise to...

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Blocking Outbound Communications

All organizations have (or should have) a firewall that blocks unexpected communications from the Internet to internal network hosts. But what about...

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The FDIC InTREX Gets Audited

While the FFIEC has released three major guidance updates since July 2019, the FDIC has not updated its examination program to include the newer...

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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...

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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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