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by Heath Stanley / Security Consultant

If you aren’t getting better then you are falling behind, and we feel that this applies to the current FFIEC guidelines we use to conduct our controls reviews and risk assessments. So instead of waiting on the FFIEC to release updated guidelines (that probably wouldn’t be as extensive as the scope we use) we are going to improve them ourselves. In the past, we have always audited beyond the scope of FFIEC guidelines, but now we will document it in improved fashion. To do this we have created a Framework Committee for the following reasons:

Our e-Review Process is an extremely helpful and money-saving tool for your company. We’re able to perform many of our services through using innovative technology without having to go on-site.

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When you are building a company you often look back at the very beginning on who were the ones that made it initially successful. Early on in The Garland Group it was just Gary, Henry, and I. We had to be everything to everybody. Sales, Marketing, Consultant, Chief Bottle Washer, you name it! We did it. Gary was as big of a part of the success of our company as anyone. So I am sad to say that Gary has decided to move on and finish his career where he spent many years before consulting, the oil and gas business.

Today we’re announcing the open release to our latest web app, Banktastic.com!

Today we’re announcing the open release to our latest web app, Banktastic.com!

Don’t know if you think the sub-prime lending crisis is funny or not, but this is a rather humorous take on it! This link was discovered by Courtney, one of our senior consultants….

We at The Garland Group have arranged a BarCampBankDallas to take place on June 21 & 22 in Frisco, TX. We’d love to have everyone come join us, it’s a volunteer-driven event and will talk anything and everything banking!

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We had alot of fun at the retreat we had in February and Lisa took it upon herself to put together an awesome little blooper reel of all of us during the trip. Yes, we maybe into serious stuff like compliance, disaster recovery, and social engineering but we like to have some fun, too! Enjoy!

Last week everyone here at TGG received a terrifying internal message.