Apologies to those interested in attending this Friday’s webinar on ‘Effectively Managing Compliance’ but due to a sudden emergency situation we are going to have to reschedule at this time. We will definitely plan to reschedule the webinar in the near future. More details very soon and once again we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
– Brad Garland, CEO
Second to ensuring your staff does not give over confidential information to unauthorized customers or vendors, Wire Fraud is one of the biggest areas of security risk for the bank. This article touches on what hackers are trying to do to fraud the bank and send money overseas. Make sure your wire transfer processes, especially the international wires, are solid and good segregation of duties exist.
FBI warns cyber criminals are targeting banks to conduct wire fraud
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Every Friday this month our team has been getting together for what we’ve dubbed the ‘October meetings’ to discuss a range of different topics from process improvement to new businesses to tap into for 2013. One of the discussion topics that came up was ‘Reporting: Today and for the Future‘ where we discussed the very fundamentals of the information we provide to our clients. One of the questions we asked ourselves – “Is our Reporting delivered in the most effective and high impact way?”. We all agreed the most important point to focus on is making sure the client can get the information when and how they want. So our first step in these reporting improvements is to move to distributing our reports entirely digitally.
Here’s the reasons why we’re doing it:
Efficiency is described in the dictionary as “effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost (as in energy, time, and money)”. It’s one of those concepts that have an affinity towards, trying to find the most effective and efficient process in business, my personal life, and beyond. However, I’ve also learned to have an effective amount of fear towards efficiency as well. Let me share with you some things we’re trying to do to become more efficient.
Today we are thrilled to announce something that has been in the making for over a year. We have made some changes to our corporate structure. Garland Group and RiskKey are sister companies to one another but owned by the same parent company – Garland Heart. We did this for a number of different positive reasons (liability, risk, growth) but one of our biggest struggles of this change was keeping up with all the branding/marketing challenges of these separate brands and those brands taking away from the larger purpose of entire enterprise – to find ways to positively impact people’s lives. So today I’m happy to announce that we are unifying our brand while also bringing our core purpose back to light. Effective immediately, Garland Group and RiskKey will be underneath the Garland Heart brand as ‘Info Security’ and ‘Virtual Compliance’ companies.
(more…)At The Garland Group we are always trying to get better and make strides to be on the cutting edge of compliance methodology. In 2010 we moved to a Continuous Compliance methodology where we risk base our section reviews and are able to put more audit resources in higher risk areas, at the same price. In 2011, we added over 30 free templates to RiskKey for all of our RiskKey customers to use. The most popular projects created this year were from the E-Banking Authentication, Red Flags and Enterprise Risk templates. In 2012, we have an exciting goal to strive for.
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