Should banks be watching their employees home computers?
You see it more and more every month. People are beginning to work from home just as often as at the office. The Internet has been a great enabler of this and will only increase in the future. But the question is now becoming if employers should be concerned with the computers employees are using […]
USB Flash Drives- What’s the Problem?
A flash drive is described by Wikipedia as “flash memory data storage devices integrated with a USB (universal serial port) interface�. Memories on the flash drives can contain from 32 Megabytes to 64 Gigabytes. They are very compact, lightweight, removable and rewritable.
The problem with assumptions
Richard Bejtlich has a blog that I read ever so often. His focus is primarily on security, but the topic in question here reaches into the financial sector. Mr. Betlich illustrates a valid point concerning the complexity and uncertainty of Infosec in general. In a nutshell, a CIO (or IT deparment) is at a disadvantage […]
WiFI Buzz(Words)
Recently two German researchers presented their findings on cracking the WPA encryption method at the PacSec security conference in Tokyo. I know this sounds like the set up to an Abbott and Costello routine, but it’s not. Its also not as serious and as dire as the researchers or the conference that announced the findings […]
A ROWE Experiment
If you follow The Garland Group blog, you no doubt have heard about the Result Only Work Environment (ROWE) in which we work. We often talk about how great it to work “whenever we want, wherever we want, as long as the work gets done.” You may even be starting to think that this “Garland […]
Make Compliance Fun series – Stairs
I recently did a post for CUES Skybox about whether you can make something traditionally boring, like compliance, fun? Seriously, no joke. We think you can and want to show you other ways that people have gotten creative and made a tough, boring, complex process better by injecting a little fun into it.
Mobile Computing Policy
A Mobile Computing Policy covers Laptop, PCs, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and lets not forget about the wonderful iphones. Employees should be instructed to not use their personal computing devices (iPhones)to access the Bank’s network unless specifically approved by the IT department or some committee/board level approval. Mobile devices should have proper AV software with […]
Observations from BarcampBank Chicago
Last Friday, I attended my fourth BarcampBank. It was in a suburban area of Chicago (Naperville) and the event was located at the Illnois Credit Union League offices. It is always interesting to see the slight differences in how these events come to life but this event, for me, didn’t disappoint. There were about twenty […]
Find how many subnets? OMG! How?
As technology folks, we like to get technical (read: geeky) from time to time. If you’re like us, this is the post for you. WARNING: Heavy technical speak ahead.
Preparing for the worst through employee training
Given the recent headlines from Jason Rodriguez, personnel or ex-personnel committing murders by gunning down fellow employees, how can your emergency plan be prepared? The Army can’t protect itself from a high ranking officer, who decides to go on a shooting spree. How does a company plan for an ex-employee, who was fired two years […]