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We often run into situations where different staff in an institution have different understandings of the goals and operations of their backup system. The IT department tends to think of backups as a recovery tool should servers go down, while...
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Phishing remains one of the top threats to organizations today. Every user regularly receives emails designed to trick them into clicking on a link,...
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Being on the board of a financial institution is not easy. Board members are expected to not only be knowledgeable about the operational and...
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It is a good practice to identify a cybersecurity framework as part of an institution’s Information Security Program. A framework helps to identify...
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Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is one of the most important controls to block account takeover fraud. There are many different forms of MFA...
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You started with an Information Security Policy that covered the basics. Then one day an auditor walked in and asked to see your Data Destruction...
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Most of our IT infrastructures were built to trust. From the time users sign on in the morning until they log off at the end of the day, the network...
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Over the years, I have become wary of the term “best practice” when it is applied to technology and cybersecurity. The term “best practice” is...
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Networks rely on encryption to ensure that data is kept private and cannot be changed while at rest or in transit. In most cases this encryption...
