Global events, especially those involving the deaths of politically exposed individuals, have significant impacts on individual banking institutions and the global financial infrastructure.
Banking institutions have a role to play: They must provide more customer education about the lures fraudsters use to compromise bank accounts and, ultimately, identities.
Facial recognition, arguably, is the technology that most threatens individual privacy online, and that's on the mind of Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, who has asked the FTC to report on its growing use.
"The CRMA will give us a heightened awareness of our responsibility in not just evaluating operational or compliance risks, but understanding strategic risks to the business," says Denny Beran of J.C. Penney.
As the Bank of America website outage proved, "Assuming it's an attack or breach is now the default response," says ID theft expert Neal O'Farrell. So, how can organizations change that perception?
As employers increasingly realize the importance of information risk management, security, audit and governance, they look to certifications to identify prospective employees.
"Just as the space race motivated education and career development in the 1960s, cybersecurity can be today's driving force," says Dickie George, information assurance technical director at NSA.
Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Henry Ford. If there were a Mount Rushmore of great inventors, it wouldn't be out of line to imagine Steve Jobs' face carved into the stone.
RSA Chief Executive Art Coviello challenged a widespread belief that cybersecurity awareness could curb cyberthreats: "There's no amount of consumer education to make them smart enough to resist attacks. They're just too sophisticated."
"The same American ingenuity that put a man on the moon also created the Internet," President Obama says. "We must now harness that spirit of innovation to ... secure technologies to build a safer, more prosperous future for all Americans."
"Forensics in the cloud is not necessarily a new field, but requires a new skill set and being able to learn on the fly," says Rob Lee, curriculum lead for digital forensics at SANS Institute.
Disaster preparedness has come a long way since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but most organizations are still missing the mark, says Kevin Sullivan, former investigator with the New York State Police.
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