Debit card fraud is one of the most prevalent security threats against banking institutions and customers alike. In this interview, Daniel McIntyre, information security and business recovery analyst with Superior Bank of Birmingham, AL., shares his insight on:
The magnitude of the debit card threat;
Strategies...
FIELD: I wanted to talk to you from the consumer's perspective. What are you seeing as the biggest areas of concern right now regarding identity theft?
BRODER: Well, I think consumers are always concerned about their privacy and running the risk that someone else will get hold of their information and will...
MIKE D'AGOSTINO: Hi. This is Mike D'Agostino with Information Security Media Group, producers of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfoSecurity.com. We recently attended the BAI 2007 Retail Delivery Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, where the theme was "Customer Innovation in the Banking and Financial Services Industry."...
Information Security Media Group recently attended the BAI Retail Delivery Conference 2007 in Las Vegas. Our correspondents covered the expo floor from a vendor point of view, and we spoke with a number of vendors who had products or services specific to information security. In general, the vendors that had some sort...
Banks are attracted to Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) as an alternative to traditional telephone networks because of the potential cost savings, including elimination of long distance charges and the need for only one network to manage both voice and data. However, VoIP entails increased data security risks,...
The Gramm Leach Bliley Act may not appear to have anything to link it to the Voice Over IP technology being implemented in financial institutions, but IT departments and Information Security officers should look closely at how the new phone systems may be audited under GLBA regulations. GLBA audits would focus more on...
Securing the network against intrusion is more than complying with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s mandate for strong authentication—although it’s certainly that. It also makes good business sense. Financial institutions that implement information security technology and...
Are financial institutions implementing the multifactor authentication laid out in the FFIEC Guidance? That was one of the issues discussed at the RSA panel presentation, "37 Days After the FFIEC Guidance Deadline." The panel of banks, credit unions and industry experts talked about what it took to get this far, and...
Voice verification is a form of biometrics that involves using voice prints and recognition of the user's phone, a combination known as a voice token. It is regarded as a next-generation authentication technology.
The more-advanced voice recognition systems record and store combinations of sounds and notes. For...
Wish List from Financial Institutions to Our Customers
As the weather outside gets colder and the year draws to an end, we're thinking of what would be some of the things we'd like to give and receive as gifts during the holidays. While your personal list may be longer than this, here's the 12 things we wish all of...
Wish List from Financial Institutions to Our Customers
As the weather outside gets colder and the year draws to an end, we're thinking of what would be some of the things we'd like to give and receive as gifts during the holidays. While your personal list may be longer than this, here's the 12 things we wish all of...
Who knows? Maybe two and three–factor authentication will become a thing of the past and five–factor authentication will take its place. The same issue with encryption has been encountered over the years. With this example in mind, does it make sense for law to be involved in the technological details?...
The exponential growth of online banking has introduced a tremendous challenge: how to reliably and efficiently identify customers online. Today’s most common method is the standard username and password or personal identification number (PIN), issued to any customer who registers. But with the explosion of...
The exponential growth of online banking has introduced a tremendous challenge: how to reliably and efficiently identify customers online. Today’s most common method is the standard username and password or personal identification number (PIN), issued to any customer who registers. But with the explosion of...
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