This article attempts to concisely describe the important points of the TSP Booklet, and makes the case that you should add the Report of Examination to your vendor due diligence tools!

SDelete allows you to delete one or more files and/or directories, or to cleanse the free space on a logical disk. It is a command line utility that takes a number of options. SDelete accepts wild card characters as part of the directory or file specifier. Instructions on how to use SDelete.

Vulnerabilities come in all shapes and sizes and while operating system patch management has largely been simplified with tools like WSUS, there is still a high degree of risk due to many popular third party applications and the lack of any centralized patching mechanism for maintaining those installations.  Vendors such as Adobe and Mozilla regularly release updates for their software packages, but managing those updates has been an arduous task for many system administrators.  Until recently, the only centralized option was to create your own MSI packages and deploy them via group policy or SCCM.

Infotex has released a White Paper in response to the customer awareness training requirements of the June 28th Supplement to the 2005 Authentication Guidance released by the FFIEC. The goal was to pull everything we know about customer awareness training into one place. Thank you to Gary Kern and John Mickle of MutualBank for granting permission to release this white paper to our friends!

Dan shares an e-mail he sent to a client about BCP Walk-through Testing.

Dan is making his most recent iteration of the “Management Awareness Training” presentation available to the public. He uses this presentation to kickoff Risk Assessment and other strategy-related engagements, as well as to debrief the management team on audit reports. The awareness PowerPoint typically takes about 45 minutes, with the remaining 15 minutes is focused on the audit results.

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Dan is placing his social media UAT slides on the infotex tools page.

Whether we’re offering fully engaged Mobile Banking solutions, dipping our toes in the water with text-based notifications, or are simply waiting proudly to be safe, late majority adapters . . . . we all know that the many technologies under the umbrella called “Mobile” present interesting and new risks.

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