Author: The Safe Systems Compliance Team

  • FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool Update

    FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool Update

    The FFIEC recently released a long-awaited update to the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, and we think overall it is a relatively minor but useful evolution. But before we get into the details of what the update does address, it’s important to note that it did not address the ambiguity issues that plague the current assessment. One…

  • “Data-flow diagrams”

    This request was seen in a recent State examiners pre-examination questionnaire, and although I usually like to see a request a couple of times from different examiners before identifying it as a legitimate trend, this one could prove so potentially problematic that I thought I needed to get ahead of it. Before we go much…