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Log4Shell Response for Community Financial Institutions

This post is intended to help community financial institutions appropriately prioritize their response efforts to the Log4Shell vulnerability. If you’ve been watching your threat intel feeds (or even just the news) over the past week, you are well...

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Extending Security Controls Beyond the Office

Over the past several years, organizations have allocated considerable resources to protect their Information Technology environment. Historically,...

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Backups vs. Retention

We often run into situations where different staff in an institution have different understandings of the goals and operations of their backup...

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Cyber New Year’s Resolution: Start with a Gut Check

Ever get that feeling that you don’t know what you don’t know about the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program?

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Keep an Eye on API Security

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, enable applications to exchange data and functionality easily with other applications and users in or...

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Introducing the Newest Member of the Bedel Security Team

The Bedel Security Team is excited to welcome our newest vCISO Specialist, Kenyatta Smith!

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Tricky Phish Testing

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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Multi-factor Authentication Threats Heat Up

Just a few months ago, we wrote an article about the dangers of using SMS (text) to support multi-factor authentication (MFA), called Breaking the...

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Resource for your Customers: 1-Page Cybersecurity Checklist For Small Businesses

Recently, I was presenting to a risk management forum at a banking association on cybersecurity and the question came up as to whether my company...

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Training Your Board

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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