Stephanie Goetz

Bank executive reading the Bedel Security blog on her desktop.
Bedel Security graphic about AI note-taker security, featuring professionals participating in a hybrid video meeting.

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AI Note-Takers: The Security Questions Institutions Should Be Asking

AI-powered meeting assistants and note-taking tools are becoming commonplace. They promise better meeting documentation, automatic action items, and increased productivity. For busy bankers, auditors, and executives, that value proposition is hard...

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Graphic highlighting the five most important cybersecurity controls from the DBIR 2026 report for financial institutions.

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DBIR 2026: Five Controls That Matter Most

Every year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) gives us the closest thing to ground truth in cybersecurity. The 2026 DBIR—covering...

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Bedel Security Friday5 graphic on whether hackers use different strategies based on bank institution size.

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Do Hackers Employ Distinct Strategies Based on Institution Size?

Over the years in my career, I’ve heard assumptions made by leaders that because they are a smaller institution:

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Business handshake illustrating trust and verification in managed security services.

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Trust but Verify: Managing your Managed Security Service Provider

Perhaps you outsourced your security monitoring and incident response to a reputable firm years ago, or are considering a change to outsource for the...

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The Top Five Ways AI Powers Hacks

Several breach report studies have reported the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in breach statistics. As of the 2024 report, 16% of breaches...

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Think outside the Inbox: Combating Modern Social Engineering Threats

Social engineering attacks have long been a critical concern for institutions, with email-based phishing dominating headlines and incident reports....

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Is Switching to Passwordless Authentication Possible with Tools we Already Have?

We are all facing password fatigue, and many institutions we work with are asking for longer passwords and more of them to pair with authenticator...

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Does Simulated Phishing Training Actually Work?

This has been a very interesting question since we’ve started phishing training, which for me was around 2016. So, for about ten years, I’ve heard...

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How AI will Impact Information Security

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing to evolve, and more institutions are implementing it in different ways, such as chatbots, automation of...

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Quantum Computing: Another Huge Leap in Technology

I read about the potential in the pairing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum computing online this week and the thought of those paired had me...

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