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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 central topic of the study. It should also come as no surprise that the news isn’t very good.

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How Can Banks Help Customers Stop BEC?

We’ve all heard about BEC, and many of us have seen it impact our financial institutions first hand. Business Email Compromise (BEC), also known as...

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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?

[caption id="attachment_714" align="alignnone" width="672"] It’s good to be back on the blog. My last post was on September 28, 2016, which means I...

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Password Managers: Single Point of Failure, or a Necessity for a Secure Enterprise? (part 1)

Recently, I've been hearing many references to password managers in the various podcasts I listen to and blog posts I read.

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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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Coming to Your State?: New York Releases First-of-its-Kind Cybersecurity Regulation for Banks

Last week, New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo announced new proposed state regulation for banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions....

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