Cybersecurity and Technology Blog

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FFIEC CYBERSECURITY ASSESSMENT TOOL?

Friday, July 3, 2015

As promised in their 2014 Cybersecurity Observations publication, the FFIEC has released new guidance in the form of a Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. As one would expect, it has a heavy focus on CEO and Board level involvement, as well as tying controls to other FFIEC and NIST resources in...

HOW WHITELISTING HELPS PREVENT AND DETECT CATO

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Many financial institutions and business customers have experienced the type of electronic banking theft known as Corporate Account Takeover (CATO). With this type of compromise, thieves attack the customer’s computer system and use this access to fraudulently change the ACH origination file.