If you keep up with the banking industry, then you’ve certainly heard about the significant events in the past several months bringing a lot of attention to fintech, specifically Banking as a...
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Handling Change in Your Organization
by Chris Bedel | Jun 14, 2024
“Change is the only constant.”–Greek philosopher Heraclitus I’ve been involved in lots of conversations about change in the past week. “This AI stuff is going to change everything.” “I’m...
Ask the Right Question to Build your Information Security Program
by Chris Bedel | Mar 15, 2024
How are we going to do this? As leaders in the banking industry, we often find ourselves saying those exact words. We want to be self-reliant—and why not? We’ve gotten where we are today by...
5 Soft Skills Every CISO Should Have
by Chris Bedel | Sep 15, 2023
Being the founder and CEO of a virtual CISO firm, I get asked questions about professional development from time to time. How do I advance my career in cybersecurity management? How do we grow our...
How to Manage a CISO to Avoid Burnout
by Chris Bedel | Jul 27, 2023
This blog post is intended for anyone managing a chief information security officer (CISO) or looking to fill the CISO role. This might also be helpful if you're a CISO, and you feel like this is...
5 Steps to Utilizing Key Controls
by Chris Bedel | May 26, 2023
Recently we’ve received a number of requests for “Key Controls” from auditors or examiners for the financial institutions we work with. Fortunately, for those that have our Risk Management module,...
What Does it Mean to be Independent and Qualified?
by Chris Bedel | May 16, 2023
In today's video, we're going to explain what it means to be independent and qualified and why it's so important for an ISO or CISO to be both. {% video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False,...
5 Things I Learned at a Bank IT Conference
by Chris Bedel | Apr 28, 2023
I recently had the opportunity to attend, and speak at, the Southeast Community Bank I.T. Rightsourcing Conference in Georgia. It was a great 1-day event with speakers representing various areas of...
The Fiduciary Role of the CISO
by Chris Bedel | Feb 24, 2023
A few months ago I was listening to a podcast. The business owner being interviewed wasn't in cybersecurity but had a consulting business. And he talked about how he operated his business with a...
The 1 Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Cybersecurity Program
by Chris Bedel | Jan 27, 2023
Let's use our imaginations for a few minutes. Let's pretend that your leadership team is concerned about the financial fitness of your bank. Whether it was identified internally, whether examiners...