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Is your financial institution using the 20 critical controls for cyber defense to protect your information?

I had an interesting discussion with Jay Combs about the challenges that banks, credit unions and other financial institutions face with cyber crime.

As you can see by his biography, Jay is an expert on understanding the challenges and opportunities that financial institutions should consider.

Are you doing everything you can to protect your client’s data?

Jay Combs is a supervisory examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, where he has spent 22 years examining and influencing banking organizations of all sizes, from small community banks to large, complex banking organizations such as US Bancorp, Glacier Bancorp, and First Interstate BancSystem.

Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense

The Critical Security Controls focuses first on prioritizing security functions that are effective against the latest Advanced Targeted Threats, with a strong emphasis on "What Works" – security controls where products, processes, architectures and services are in use that have demonstrated real world effectiveness:

1: Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices

2: Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software

3: Secure Configurations for Hardware and Software on Mobile Devices, Laptops, Workstations, and Servers

4: Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation

5: Malware Defenses

Full List: http://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/

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