Stephanie Goetz

Bank executive reading the Bedel Security blog on her desktop.

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Five Essential Cybersecurity Tasks to Complete Before Year-End

As we approach the end of the year, it's crucial for institutions to ensure their cybersecurity measures are robust and up to date. We typically put off these key things behind projects and the busyness of the year and forget them, causing some...

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CISA SCuBA vs. CIS Benchmarks: Cloud Security

What Is the Difference Between CISA SCuBA and CIS Benchmarks? CISA's Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project provides security...

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CrowdStrike and Supply Chain Risk Management—What Can we Learn From this Experience?

Wow, how much technology has changed in the past 15 years? I remember when “vendor” reviews were uncommon, technology was hosted in-house in 95% of...

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Artificial Intelligence–How will it be regulated

Institutions are looking at services using Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as loan decisioning, resume review, and process automation. Using these...

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Hacker Psychology

Many of you have probably heard the adage that one of the best ways to catch a criminal is to think like one. Recently, I discovered several articles...

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NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

The National Institute for Standards and Technology released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) late February. The CSF was originally...

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The Three Lines of Defense

We have referenced this concept in blog posts previously related to growing your Information Security Program and ensuring independence in your...

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Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence: Who is the better phisher?

What an interesting question and an article published recently gives us the answer, at least for today. Stephanie Carruthers, the chief people hacker...

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Five Findings from the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report

I was reviewing the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report this week and wanted to share some findings I found interesting. This report is...

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Draft Updates

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was initially developed in 2014 and was intended to be a living document, dependent on feedback from...

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