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Financial Statement Review in Vendor Management

What are the expectations for Financial Statement Review? For banks and credit unions. Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . I’m often asked, “what should we be doing when it comes to financial st...

6 Ways To Be Safer

Another awareness poster for YOUR customers (and users).  Now that we have our own employees aware, maybe it’s time to start posting content for our customers! Download the large versions here: Awareness Poster (Portrait) Awareness Poster (Landscape) You are welcome t...

Digital Security Standard Compliance: Is It Enough?

While the credit card industry-backed program has good aspects, it should not replace the SOC-2. With the number of different security standards–and ways to test those standards–out there, it can be difficult to stay on top of just what is required, compliance ...

A Password Management Horror Story

Not having strong policies surrounding shared passwords could make your data a hostage An article review. Do you know who is in control of the various account credentials used by your organization’s employees? One Indianapolis company is, but only after a fired empl...

In-Memory Malware Hitting Banks Across The Globe

Residing almost entirely in memory, these new attacks are much harder to combat An article review. Our friend Wes Pollard at Home Bank turned us on to this story from Ars Technica about a rash of new malware attacks with a new twist: they reside almost entirely in a compu...

Beware!!! Connect with care! Poster

Another awareness poster for YOUR customers (and users).  Now that we have our own employees aware, maybe it’s time to start posting content for our customers! Download the large versions here: Awareness Poster (Portrait) Awareness Poster (Landscape) You are welcome t...

The American Monkey Trap

Using technology in the new standard. Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Dan wrote a sequel to this article! You can find it here: Banana Trap Too. The Monkey Trap story may not be new to you.  I first enc...

The Sidebar!

The Sidebar, the Side of the Road, and the Road Rules! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Note from Legal Risk Assessment! Dan has already revised these rules twice.  They are still evolving and still not ...

Information Overload 2017

2017 – Ten Guidance Releases and the Solution . . . A sidebar from our 2017 M-7 Article! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . We felt our M-7 article should inventory the new guidance you’ll need to g...