Mergers and acquisitions often present tight time frames in which employees must make life-altering decisions for themselves and their families.
Without a doubt, uncertainty is the number one issue after announcing a merger or acquisition. And the key question that most employees dread is: Who stays and who...
Howard Schmidt, a recognized information security thought leader, offers exclusive insights as new president of the Information Security Forum.
Schmidt, a household name in information security circles since his days as CISO and information security leader at Microsoft and eBay, discusses the global war against...
Following one of those most challenging weeks in history, financial services workers - particularly those employed at imperiled companies such as Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers -- are struggling to come to terms with their uncertain futures.
We caught up with Jennifer Bayuk, former CISO at Bear Stearns & Co.,...
What's the most important factor in signing off information security projects at a bank? For Jon Pascoe, Director of Information Security at Arvest Bank located in Arkansas, the highest consideration is adequately protecting customer data and information and reaching higher standards in safeguarding confidential...
Interview with Jennifer Bayuk, Former CISO at Bear Stearns & Co.
Governance is a term increasingly used in financial institutions, as banking/security leaders try to introduce new processes and disciplines to their organizations.
In this exclusive interview, Jennifer Bayuk, an information security specialist...
Information Security Media Group (ISMG), publisher of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfosecurity.com, recently posed a few questions to Debbie Wheeler, Chief Information Security Officer for Fifth Third Bancorp headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with approximately $111 billion in assets under management. In her current...
Clearly all businesses are really under pressure given the current slow economic environment. However, the greatest impact on a financial institution no matter what is always its customer. "At the heart of a bank lies the customer and customer trust is paramount for financial institutions," says Doug Johnson from the...
Institutions of all sizes struggle with staffing resources - having enough hands available to tend to information security matters. At America First Credit Union in Riverdale, Utah, Lane Gittins, the Systems Security Manager, has learned to overcome this challenge by working in a consultative style - directing a...
The clear message from banking regulators in their Senate testimony is: Banks are hurting.
The follow-up question is: Exactly how badly are they hurting, and how will their pain trickle down to impact information security programs and priorities?
Security leaders are quickly evolving in their roles to focus more on the business of banking, less on the technology of information security.
This is the main message delivered by the results of ISACA's recent Information Security Career Progression Survey of 1400 Certified Information Security Managers (CISMs) in...
Interview with Nalneesh Gaur, Chief Information Security Architect, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
Mergers and acquisitions are a way of life for financial institutions, and so many pertinent business issues bubble up whenever an M&A is discussed.
But when does information security enter the...
Here's the situation: You have to hire a new CISO for your financial institution. Which is better: to hire a banker who can be trained in information security, or to hire an information security professional who can be trained in banking?
We posed this question to a group of industry experts and professionals,...
Interviews Shed Light on Topics of Unique Interest to Banking/Security Executives
The annual RSA Conference is a showplace for the who's who of security solutions vendors. The event showroom is lined with scores of the industry's leading vendors - no one individual could hope to see them all.
So, the Information...
It's never easy arising from security or technology to become a business leader in a financial institution. In this exclusive interview, Paul Perini - who came to security from the business side - offers practical insight on:
The qualities an information security leader needs to possess in order to be a successful...
Interview with Philip Alexander, Information Security Officer
Offshore outsourcing - it's a topic that stirs great debate among banking/security leaders. Proponents tout the potential cost-savings and easy access to top talent. Opponents point to cultural, infrastructural and, yes, security concerns inherent in...
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