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“Banking” on Zero Trust: An Essential Shift in Cybersecurity
Ever heard Rick Howard's analogy of networks being like M&M candies? Imagine a hard exterior shell but with a soft, less secure core. Traditional...
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Cloud Security Challenges
As financial institutions increasingly embrace the benefits of cloud computing, the importance of cloud security cannot be understated. While the...
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Addressing the MOVEit Vulnerability: Actions for Financial Institutions
Financial institutions rely on numerous third-party providers to support their operations and deliver essential services. However, these partnerships...
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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...
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Password Reuse
Today, I want to discuss a topic that often goes unnoticed but can have far-reaching consequences: password reuse. In this fast-paced digital age,...
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5 Steps to Utilizing Key Controls
Recently we’ve received a number of requests for “Key Controls” from auditors or examiners for the financial institutions we work with. Fortunately,...
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Insider Cybersecurity Threats: What Financial Institutions Need to Know
Community financial institutions face a wide range of cybersecurity threats, but one of the most concerning is insider threats. Insider threats refer...
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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...