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Encryption: Keeping your data safe since ╥«|¢⌠♠

Posted by: Alex Chernikov on 4/24/2012 | 0 Comments

While password protected computers are good to keep out those who may want to change your desktop background to a flattering picture of David Hasselhoff, they will not stop a determined attacker from stealing your computer and analyzing the data stored on your hard drives. Even though a Windows login screen can stop a person from logging into the computer through Windows, your files are left unencrypted on the hard drive by default and can be read using a simple live CD. In fact, the password itself could easily be recovered using the same method. This is significantly applicable to devices such as laptops which are mobile and more easily lost or stolen.

FFIEC updated controls for multi-factor authentication systems

Posted by: Alex Chernikov on 12/19/2011 | 0 Comments

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In 2005, the FFIEC issued a guideline for how businesses should handle authentication in financial environments (credit unions, banks, trading firms, etc). This authentication, or in other terms, the validity of a certain customer to their account/transactions had certain guidelines set by the FFIEC to ensure that other individuals (such as hackers) would not be able to impersonate the customer. Since the guideline was made in 2005, much has changed in the way of online security, and new guidelines were established to make sure that customer information was protected.