Page 14 - White Papers in Standards, Regulations & Compliance

The Impact of New Communication Tools for Financial Services Firms

Despite stringent regulatory requirements like FINRA, many financial services firms rely on unified communications, Web 2.0 and social networks to communicate and promote their business. There are competitive advantages to be gained, along with new IT challenges: Compliance demands logging, archiving and...

FINRA: Compliance Guide Social Networks, Web 2.0 and Unified Communications

New communications tools such as Social Networks, Instant Messaging and Unified Communications platforms can gain your organization significant competitive advantage, and enable you to make decisions more quickly - even in heavily regulated industries where: Compliance demands logging, archiving and retention of...

Charting Your Path to Enterprise Key Management: Steps to Take Today for a More Efficient, Secure Key Infrastructure

Create A Secure Key Infrastructure - Free Step-By-Step Guide! Approaches to encryption and key management have evolved a great deal in recent years. But to become sustainable and deliver the cohesive security required, encryption and key management will need to evolve further. Read this guide and learn how...

Understanding Man-in-the-Browser Attacks and Addressing the Problem

The financial services industry has become a primary target of cyber attacks on a global scale. While all types of cybercrime have been on the rise, there has been a sharp increase in financial fraud resulting from computers infected with malware - one of the most dangerous types being Man-in-the-Browser attacks....

How to Prioritize Risk & Justify Security Investments

Prioritizing risks and justifying security investments is a straight-forward process when using relevant facts and data from the right stakeholders. Applying a simple process with the right visuals, a risk-driven security budget can be produced efficiently and aligned with business objectives. This paper shows how...

Pinpointing and Preventing Internal Fraud Risk: It's an Inside Job

With a steep growth in fraud committed by employees - identifying and stopping it is a primary objective for internal audit, compliance managers and fraud prevention departments. Technology can make fraud detection, documentation and prevention more efficient and effective for these stakeholders. Pivotal to...

Meeting the Challenges of Governance, Risk, & Compliance

Current economic conditions heighten the need for financial services firms to accurately gauge required levels of regulatory compliance and economic capital to support business strategy and risk appetite. More regulations are on the way, demanding transparency, accurate information about company operations, robust and...

Demystifying IT Risk to Achieve Greater Security and Compliance

Managing IT risk is part of running any financial institution these days. Understanding IT risk can help you increase network security, reduce management costs and achieve greater compliance. Corporate leaders who fail to identify, assess and mitigate IT risk are setting themselves up for serious security breaches and...

Achieving Compliance with Massachusetts Data Protection Act

As of March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both paper and electronic records containing personal information. These requirements include enforcing password security,...

25 Best Practices for Managing User Access to Desktops, Networks, and Applications to Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Financial institutions must address a growing number of regulations designed to ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of customer and corporate data . Regulations are often mandatory and compliance must be verifiable. In many cases, organizations and their company officers found to be non-compliant may be...

Regulatory Compliance: Global Privacy, Disclosure, & Encryption Issues

Information technology (IT) security is indispensable to an organization's ability to conduct business and achieve its objectives. With regulatory compliance and industry data security standards dominating many of these business objectives, confidential data protection comes to the forefront of IT security....

Automated, Continuous PCI Compliance

This white paper details how Tripwire IT security and compliance automation solutions help keep the IT infrastructure in a continuously PCI-compliant - and secure-state. Tripwire Enterprise does this with a compliance policy for PCI, file integrity monitoring, real-time analysis of change and easy access to...

Regulatory Scrutiny: Protecting Sensitive Data

So what exactly is regulated data? It depends on the industry. Many regulations focus on personally identifiable information on individuals, such as Social Security numbers, addresses, or credit card numbers. It also can be computer access protection data (such as passwords) or protected patient health information...

Reducing the Cost of Achieving PCI Compliance

Of all the compliance regulations, mandates and guidelines, you're most likely to encounter PCI. Any vendor, organization, entity, group, business, etc., that accepts and processes credit cards falls under the PCI requirements standard and is subject to its audit cycles. PCI DSS covers a range of physical and...

Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk & Compliance Through Process & Automation

The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet organizations that can master these activities, operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands. Learn how Governance, Risk, and Compliance technologies can help. This white paper presents a low risk,...