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Implement Practical Policies and Processes to Improve Your Cyber Security

Lately, we've been running into cyber security programs and information security programs (ISP) that are elaborate, lengthy, complex, and written with a technical person in mind. The structure of these programs covers every conceivable event and...

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Sheltered Harbor: New Concept? Or Should You Be Doing This Stuff Already?

Several of our banking clients have reached out to us in the past couple weeks to ask our thoughts on Sheltered Harbor. My guess is that the common...

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Lack of Security Awareness Playing a Key Role in Ransomware Attacks

The CyberEdge Group released its fourth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report earlier this month, and it should come as no surprise that ransomware was a...

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Cybersecurity: What the Best Banks Do to Protect Themselves

The hack of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial giants in 2014, which involved the theft of 80 million customer records, revealed an unfortunate...

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Banks Have the Capital to Buy Fintech Startups — Will They?

Banks are entering what could well be a golden age — deregulation, rising interest rates, and a bevy of fintech startups eager to hop into bed with...

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When a Returned Wire isn’t Just a Returned Wire

[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="672"] Recently, the Wire Department at a client of ours noted an unusual event where $5,000 had...

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Why was it so Quiet in the Fourth Quarter?

It’s good to be back on the blog. My last post was on September 28, 2016, which means I didn’t post one thing in Q4 of 2016. Some of you may have...

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Announcing the Release of our First White Paper!

The Virtual CISO and Outsourced ISO service offering are gaining a ton of interest lately, as they very well should be. Community banks are in need...

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Hired Guns: The Rise of the Virtual CISO

I love this article by Michelle Drolet on Network World: The enterprise is facing a dangerous combination of mounting cybersecurity threats of...

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