Top 7 Trend Articles of 2022. . .  . . .For ISOs of Small Financial Institutions. Welcome to our annual T7 article:  a list of our favorite trend articles from the past year.  Our intent: help you organize your thoughts as you work through your strategic planning process.  We hope reviewing these articles will help […]

Awareness is 9/11’s of the battle, if we use it! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . One of my old college buddies hates banks.  He was turned down for a loan a long time ago and just can’t let go.  I actually […]

Dan’s response to incoming questions. . . Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . It’s about residual risk. A lot of people lately have been asking me if the world is on fire now that Russia is trying to attack us from a […]

It doesn’t cover us. . . . . . but we’ll agree to it anyway. Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . I thought I’d write a quick DNL about the new 36 hour rule.  It’s due in May, so I am not […]

Seven Trends . . . that small bank Information Security Officers face in 2022 Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Welcome to the Magnificent Seven, my annual predictive article about the seven trends in technology that will impact the Information Security Officers of […]

Ransomware is not a threat.  The threat is the APT.  Ransomware is simply one of the many tools available to the APT. Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Our article about truth in disasters garnered a lot more initial views than we’re […]

How Do We Know What We Know? Making Sure You Can Understand What Happened in an Incident. Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Until I reclined on my front yard, looking at the sky, following the instructions on how not to look […]

Why It Rhymes With SEEM (And its Not the I Before E Rule) Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . It’s the Gestalt. The idea that the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. That’s not something that is often brought […]

Four Conditions … …For Why a Network Can be Anything But a Network! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . I have to admit that infotex is being called into engineering meetings with larger organizations these days that are NOT community based banks.  We […]

A follow-up on Dan’s 2008 Password Manifesto On the NIST Publication on Digital Identity Guidelines Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . In June 2017, NIST released a special publication on digital identity, NIST SP 800-63, that is starting to get the attention […]