Tag: Information Security Program

  • Have There Been Any Official Board Reporting Updates to the FFIEC InfoSec Handbook since 2016?

    Have There Been Any Official Board Reporting Updates to the FFIEC InfoSec Handbook since 2016?

    Hey Guru! Do you have any additional blogs about FDIC changing the annual IT report to the board? I saw the article from 2012 and was wondering if there are any updates to that. Has the FFIEC updated its Information Security IT Handbook after 2016 in regard to this subject?Thank you,Lynn Hi Lynn, and thanks…

  • UPDATE – New Proposed Cyber Incident Notification Rules Finalized

    UPDATE – New Proposed Cyber Incident Notification Rules Finalized

    Last updated March 30, 2022. Currently, financial institutions are required to report a cyber event to their primary federal regulator under very specific circumstances. This requirement dates back to GLBA, Appendix B to Part 364 and states that FI incident response plans (IRP’s) should contain procedures for: “Notifying its primary Federal regulator as soon as…

  • New Proposed Cyber Incident Notification Rules

    New Proposed Cyber Incident Notification Rules

    Update: Since publishing this post, these rules have been finalized. We have a new post covering those details here. We first wrote about incident notification over ten years ago, and based on feedback from our cyber testing experience, financial institutions are still struggling with the issue of whether or not to notify their customers and…