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Biggest Cybersecurity Risks for Financial Firms

October 29, 2019

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness month, and with seventy percent of financial companies having suffered a cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months, it’s crucial for firms to not only know their biggest cyber risks but how to prevent them.

Insider Threats Pose Biggest Security Risk, Bettercloud Report Reveals

March 20, 2019

BetterCloud released its first insider threats report: “State of Insider Threats in the Digital Workplace 2019.” The report found that 91 percent of IT and security professionals surveyed feel vulnerable to insider threats, and 75 percent believe the biggest risks lie in cloud applications like popular file storage and email solutions such as Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox and more.

Small Businesses Get Hit Hardest by Employee Theft

July 1, 2015

Nearly 72 percent of U.S. federal actions involving employee theft in 2014 involved small businesses – organizations with fewer than 500 employees, according to the 2015 Hiscox Embezzlement Watchlist. Within that group, four of every five victim organizations had fewer than 100 employees, and more than half had fewer than 25 employees.

Survey Reveals Time to Identify Advanced Threats is 98 Days for Financial Services Firms, 197 Days for Retail

May 19, 2015

Financial Services and Retail organizations struggle to identify advance threat attacks once they are inside their network, according to a new Ponemon Institute Survey.

Top 7 Trends for Financial Firm Cyber Security in 2014

December 4, 2013

Cyber threats are the “new normal” for the financial services industry, according to Booz Allen in its annual list of the “Top Financial Services Cyber Security Trends for 2014.”

Decline for Second Year

Low Levels of Security Concern, Even After Boston Marathon Bombings

Four areas of security concern surveyed: national, personal, Internet and financial.

May 22, 2013

According to new research conducted by Unisys Corporation, security concern among Americans has declined for the second consecutive year to its lowest level since the company began tracking global security concerns in 2007.

Securing the Cash Flow

Bill Zalud

December 1, 2011

Sorry, but Willie Sutton never did say that he robbed banks because “that was where the money was.” But, after his last stay in prison, he did do television commercials for Connecticut’s New Britain Bank & Trust Co. to hawk the company’s new MasterCard.