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2012 Compliance Trends, Part 5 – Uncertainty (UPDATE)
Similar to my previous post on Risk Assessments, I believe Uncertainty is also a 2-part trend: – Uncertainty about future regulatory changes, and – Uncertainty about the interpretation of existing regulations
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Another incident management table-top training exercise
I’ve mentioned before that financial institutions would be wise to use news reports of security incidents as “what if” table-top training exercises. Here is another one that just occurred a couple of days ago: Test scenario: You receive a subpoena from a government agency requesting financial information on several customers. The subpoena includes names and…
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2012 Compliance Trends, Part 4 – Risk Assessments
Information security, business continuity, vendor management, ID theft, RDC, Internet banking…it seems that every time you do anything these days you’re expected to perform a risk assessment. This is nothing new, risk assessments have been around since risk management began, but I think we’re going to see even more focus on them in the future. …
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Top Topics for 2011
With every one else doing their end-of-the-year top ten lists, I thought I might join in and see what topics were most popular with visitors to the Compliance Guru site in 2011. There were a total of almost 24,000 page views, and here are the 5 most popular blog posts with view counts: AICPA…
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FDIC offers “Insight” on Mobile Banking
Although not considered official supervisory guidance, the most recent FDIC Supervisory Insights newsletter offers an instructive early look into how the agency might examine this emerging electronic banking delivery method in the future. (Before you tune out and decide to wait for the formal guidance, remember it was the Winter 2009 issue that first introduced…
