Has our financial system's attention focused so much on cyberthreats that it's forgotten to lock down controls to prevent low-tech schemes? In a nutshell, yes.
This $38 billion bank has invested a great deal of time and effort into its online security program, continuously conducting risk assessments and making strides to ensure commercial customers stay informed about evolving online-banking risks.
In the age of high-profile attacks, such as a distributed denial-of-service attack against South Korean websites, organizations are shifting their focus in terms of cybersecurity, McAfee CTO/Public Sector Phyllis Schneck says.
A hospital CIO calls for studies of how best to match patients to their records, citing the issue as critical to the success of health information exchanges.
According to FINRA, Citi's negligence in adequately supervising Tamara Moon, a former sales assistant at a Citi branch in Palo Alto, Calif., resulted in $749,978 being skimmed from the accounts of 22 Citi customers.
"There are still a lot of inexperienced people out there that are passing themselves off as experts," says Scott Laliberte, managing director of Protiviti, outlining the common challenges of penetration testing.
"The consequences of computer hacks are much different than they used to be," says cybersecurity expert Joseph Steinberg, following the sentencing of three convicted fraudsters.
Documenting procedures for the State Department's custom-made, continuous-monitoring tool known as iPost will help ensure that the data collected are appropriately used to protect the agency's global IT system, a GAO audit says.
Ian Harper of Pentagon Federal Credit Union says financial institutions should continually review their risk management processes, a recommendation reinforced by the new FFIEC Authentication Guidance.
Debit fraud in the U.S. continues to grow as transaction volume increases. As international markets move away from mag-stripe and toward chip & PIN technology, fraud experts say U.S. card issuers can expect to see fraud continue to escalate.
"We're continually testing our controls and the effectiveness of our controls. We do a lot of emerging-threats monitoring ... so we can react," says First Niagara's Joe Rogalski.
A California judge handed down a 12-year prison sentence to a phisher who stole financial details from more than 38,000 online accountholders. Observers say the sentence signals a changing attitude about the severity of cybercrimes.
"It's time to stop shifting the security burden onto retailers and restaurants like Margarita's," says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan on the latest payment card breach. "In fact, it was time for that over five years ago."
Scott Laliberte, managing director of Protiviti, wrote the book on penetration testing, and he has strong feelings about what organizations are doing right and wrong when assessing their information security risks today.
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