Banking Information Systems Security: Articles

As identity theft and cyber crimes escalate and receive increased media coverage, the need to secure data is an increasingly daunting challenge for community banks. Likewise, the issue has not escaped the attention of regulators who are heightening their scrutiny of community banks’ information security and audit practices. Now more than ever, community banks need to ensure that their information systems (IS) auditors and IS security consulting firms are up to the task at hand.
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Remember when your company first "got Internet?" Few of us imagined the magnitude of opportunity and associated risk created by this evolution in technology. Prior to the Internet, a business' information assets were accessible by a relatively small number of people. Now, with the Internet, anyone in the world with an Internet connection potentially has access to your company's information assets.
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Businesses spend a significant portion of their annual information technology budgets on high-tech computer security. But the firewalls, vaults, bunkers, locks and biometrics those dollars buy can be pierced by attackers targeting untrained, uninformed or unmonitored users. Social engineering attacks involve the use of deceptive or manipulative tactics on an individual to gain unauthorized access to information assets.
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Spreadsheet functionality has grown exponentially since the introduction of VisiCalc in 1979, and many purposes for which spreadsheets are now used can be accommodated with business software products that contain built-in security and validation controls. But the cost and limited flexibility of such products can make them less attractive than a quickly customizable spreadsheet. So what steps can you take to ensure that the spreadsheets used by your staff are developed, tested and controlled appropriately?
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