How your application and data security strategy can help you complete a high level FFIEC CAT assessment

More than ever, financial institutions depend on web applications to maintain operations and partner with other enterprises to provide services to customers, but the significant rise in the number of cyber attacks targeted at this industry in the last few years has the potential to undermine...

Partner Perspectives: Red Canary ATT&CKs (Part 1): Why We’re Using ATT&CK Across Red Canary

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on RedCanary.com Information security is grounded in risk management. And, because what gets measured gets managed, we rely on a variety of frameworks and key performance indicators to tell us whether we’re moving in the right direction. Frameworks lik...

Regulators Planning Cybersecurity Assessments for Banks

A government agency in charge of developing standards for the nation’s banks announced last week that it will work harder to try to identify vulnerabilities in smaller community banks and that it’s planning to better raise awareness when it comes to cyber threats. The Federal Financial Institutio...

Regulators To US Banks: Be Vigilant of ATM Fraud, DDoS

U.S. regulators are warning banks this week about a recent rash of “large dollar value” ATM fraud and the ongoing risks distributed denial of service DDoS attacks that target public bank websites can pose. Members of FFIEC, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency se...

The FFIEC proposes guidance on social media - can you stay two steps ahead?

On January 22, 2013, the FFIEC put out a press release called "Financial Regulators Propose Guidance on Social Media". We should begin by saying that even without a social media presence, every company should address social media risks in their annual risk assessment. In this day and age where th...