Windows Vista is not receiving the open arms welcome that Microsoft expected. Could it be that they spent 6 years developing an operating system that nobody wanted? Could it be that Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, failed to take into consideration the needs of its users? Did Microsoft choose to include anti-piracy software (DRM – Digital Rights Management) and build an Operating System around something that cripples the majority of its business users? Could it be? Yes. Is it possible? Yes. Did it happen? You bet.
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RiskKey.com is officially launched.
When we started on RiskKey we wanted to debunk all the thoughts on the risk assessment process being a complex, difficult, and flat-out frustrating process. We think we’ve done that today by officially announcing the immediate availability of RiskKey.
Mark got so excited last night that he already mentioned it on over on RiskKey’s support blog but we wanted to let the readers of this blog know as well. It’s been a great experience to be a part of and hopefully the members of the system will find great use out of it.
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Penetration Testing
The penetration testing is engineered to analyze your presence on the Internet from more than just a Firewall Scan Approach. We review, text and document the presence of all of the Institution’s information in areas other than just the Internet interface. This scope of work characterizes the Institution network and firewall, and identifies potential security weaknesses in your presence on the Internet, email, online banking, and other IP services and protocols.
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FFIEC Technology Audits
The Garland Group uses the specific guidelines set forth by the FFIEC. Below are brief descriptions of each of the twelve FFIEC handbooks The Garland Group will cover for your Information Technology Audit. It will offer some insight about what each booklet consists of and what we will be doing to ensure your financial institution is in compliance. Click here to download an example of our controls review worksheet.
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Success Story: Los Alamos National Bank
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Success Story: Lubbock National Bank
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Security awareness training: How to educate employees about spyware
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FinCEN’s 314(a) Fact Sheet
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Jack Henry Southwest Users Group
I would just like to thank everyone for the invitation to the Jack Henry Southwest Users Group this evening. I wanted to go ahead a post the PDF download as well as the link to a similar presentation on this topic just in case you’d like to forward it along to someone in your institution.
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Dead simple RSS Tutorial
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is taking over how information is delivered to people through the web. Bankers need to understand this because customers use it and are going to expect you to provide them with the RSS feeds to get them the access or content they want, when they want it. So check out this is a smart/funny little video that will teach you what RSS is all about.
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