This newsletter is currently on hiatus. These tips offers quick, practical, hands-on advice and how-to information on everything information security professionals at financial institutions need to know to keep their data secure. Topics include data governance, Web and application security, data encryption, data classification, PII and PIFI, and more.
Using full disk encryption in the battle against laptop data theft
SearchFinancialSecurity.com | 17 Jul 2008 INTERVIEW - Data loss from lost or stolen laptops is becoming more common. In this Q&A, Michael Cobb explains whether that means it's time for full-disk encryption.
Cryptography's future
SearchSecurity.com | 28 Feb 2008 INTERVIEW - Senior News Writer Bill Brenner asks Dr. Burt Kaliski, vice president of research at RSA Security, about how Symmetric Key Infrastructures (SKI) will affect encryption's future.
Phishers targeting smaller financial firms, credit unions
SearchFinancialSecurity.com | 14 Feb 2008 ARTICLE - Financial institutions remain a target of phishing attacks, but it's no longer just the biggest firms that are under assault. Fortunately, companies are finding ways to fight back.
By addressing data privacy, companies avoid public scrutiny
20 Nov 2008 TIP - Authors Craig Norris and Tom Cadle explain the responsibilities that come with handling sensitive information and the guidelines meant to ensure that data is protected.
Lessons learned: The LendingTree case
13 Nov 2008 TIP - Learn what went wrong at LendingTree and how your financial organization can protect itself from the same problem.
Lessons learned: The Countrywide Financial breach
05 Nov 2008 TIP - The data breach at Countrywide Financial Corp. seems like something out of a TV crime drama: Two men regularly copied customer data and secretly sold it as leads to other brokers.
The Societe Generale fraud story: Keith White on fraud
SearchFinancialSecurity.com | 22 Oct 2008 VIDEO - In this interview video with Keith White, Vice President of Information Security Risk at Credit Suisse Group, he explains what happened in the fraud case at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, and what controls ...
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