Posts tagged compliance
Microsoft DLL Hijacking Vulnerability
Aug 26th
by David Lingenfelter, Fiberlink Microsoft released this week information about an issue in their OS that has made hundreds of applications that run on Windows vulnerable to attack. Here’s the security advisory from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspx The vulnerability basically allows applications to start DLLs that are on remote network shares. A DLL (Dynamic Link Library) is More >
A PC in everyone’s pocket. Financial Services leads the way, again.
Aug 3rd
by Jim Szafranski, Fiberlink Remember the days of investment bankers and investors carrying around the Blackberry 850 that looked more pager than the start of today’s smart phone craze? Also, wasn’t it just two years ago that Blackberry had a stranglehold on the enterprise smartphone? Well, those days are obviously gone and some new smartphone More >
Financial Industry Compliance: Part 3, the FSA Data Security Report
Jul 15th
In our previous posts we surveyed regulations and standards with provisions that apply specifically to endpoints, and looked at the Information Security Handbook from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) for guidance on best practices. Here we will look at another excellent set of guidelines for financial firms, the Data Security in Financial Services More >
Financial Industry Compliance: Part 2, the FFIEC Information Security Handbook
Jul 8th
by Val Hetrick, Fiberlink In our previous post we surveyed several regulations and standards with provisions that apply specifically to endpoints. We also noted that some of these included general guidelines such as “protecting against foreseeable risks” that might be challenging to pin down. What standards can financial firms use to address such vague requirements? More >
News Flash – Employees Blatantly Violate IT Policies
Apr 12th
by Clint Adams, Fiberlink This recent headline is based on a survey conducted by Fiberlink and states that one in ten employees has “blatantly” violated IT policies at some point in order to be productive. Definitely an interesting statistic. This made me wonder how many employees are inadvertently violating IT policies in the quest to More >