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Identity Theft Task Force Report and How it Affects Community Banks

The Community April 27th, 2007 Comments

The President’s Identity Theft Task Force released their report and website on Tuesday with 31 recommendations to help reduce identity theft and fraud cases. This report has overarching recommendations such as consumer education and harsh punishments for criminals. I believe that some of these findings will eventually trickle down the grapevine and affect auditing guidelines [...]

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USB Flash Drives- What’s the Problem?

The Community April 25th, 2007 Comments

A flash drive is described by Wikipedia as “flash memory data storage devices integrated with a USB (universal serial port) interfaceâ€?.   Memories on the flash drives can contain from 32 Megabytes to 64 Gigabytes.  They are very compact, lightweight, removable and rewritable. 
These devices can be used to upload data to a PC be it malicious [...]

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The Importance of "Due Diligence"…

The Community April 19th, 2007 Comments

“Good security design takes time, and necessarily means limiting functionality. Good security testing takes even more time, especially if the product is any good. This means the less-secure product will be cheaper, sooner to market and have more features. “
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This article is another reason why Bruce Schneier makes alot more money and is [...]

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RiskKey Preview | Coming soon!

The Community April 11th, 2007 Comments

So now that we are in the final stages of our newest version of RiskKey, we’d like to give you guys a sneak peek at some of the things we are bringing to the product in hopes that it allows the risk assessment process to be a much easier process than it has ever been.
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