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It was during an incident response test with a client that this topic came up. The scenario was something like this: Ransomware infects several workstations including a critical shared drive on one of the servers. During the discussion, several...
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The survey was conducted in January of 2016 by BankDirector.com where they asked executives and board members at 161 different financial institutions...
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We are in the security business. So "SECURITY" should be in the name, right? When I first started on my own, I was a little afraid to get specific on...
I love this article by Kevin Beaver on goals for your ISP. Although it's already the end of March, it is applicable at any time of the year because...
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What is a Virtual CISO (vCISO)? Keeping your information security and cybersecurity programs up to snuff can be difficult for community banks. Having...
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Ransomware is a very scary thing for community banks. I have a couple clients that have had to go toe-to-toe with it and were fortunate enough to...
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Dan Hadaway, with Infotex, goes into great detail on the risks associated with misconfiguration of "secure" email in one of his recent blog posts. He...
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Ever wonder why social engineering attacks are on the rise?
Mastercard will be launching an app that uses a 'selfie' to authenticate the user later this year. Will community banking apps follow suit in the...
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In my years of doing security awareness training, I’ve always taught users to hover over links embedded in emails before clicking on them. When...
