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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

The Five Biggest Security Threats Facing Businesses Today

Robert Siciliano 2/12/2 Millennials, the next generation of technology savvy workers are coming to a cubicle near you. They are a generation of technogeeks that dont know they are techno or geeks. I had a rattle. They had a PS2. This generation knows enough to fix it and enough to break it. They are the best thing and the worst thing to happen to

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Managing risk, and the Select Committee

On February 11, 2009 the Treasury Select Committee interviewed five senior practitioners of the banking industry. This followed on after several days of interviews with similar figures from other banks, all active in the UK. The evidence was interesting as it highlighted how little science there is in the ways risks and exposures are managed. Compl...

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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Let the X Force be with you!

IBM has released its latest X Force Internet Security and Trends report. See here : http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports/xforce-2008-annual-report.pdf These kind of reports have attained added significance in the downturn. Surely, there are now more willing victims and potential criminals. For the past month, I have been get...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The curious case of Paul Moore and HBOS

The FT helpfully printed the full Paul Moore memo in today's paper here. To be honest his claim that he was replaced by a manager, at the approval of the CEO, with no previous risk management experience does not in the least bit surprise me. In my experience for every hard working, dilligent and compenent risk manager working inside banks over the...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Risk managers: guiding light or pesky whistle blowers?

Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein won a lot of column inches for an article in the FT this week when he called on the industry to raise the status of the risk manager from obstructive killjoy to guiding light. "Risk and control functions need to be completely independent from the business units. And clarity as to whom risk and control managers re...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity Theft Rising; Hits Record 10M Americans in 2008

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker 2/9/09 Number of fraud victims rises in 2008, but average loss per theft falls, according to a recent study. Article Here It should come as no surprise that identity theft incidents are climbing. Over the past year we have seen hundreds of data breaches resulting in millions and millions of records ripped

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Richard Barr

Richard Barr Principal Associate at Citadel Advantage Ltd.

Lehman Bros. didn't fail?

What? Shouldn't the association with a major failure in the financial markets be enough to disqualify Xavier Rolet as the cheif of the world's leading exchanges? I could be mistaken but I don't think that failure should be rewarded. Any key executive of a failed investment firm should not be in a position that has sway over such a large component ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Robert Siciliano on CNN Thursday 2.5.9 Phishing Scams

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on CNN 2/5/9 “Facebook Scams” Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Protection Expert www.IDTheftSecurity.com on CNN today discussing phising scams, social networks and Facebook Video here

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IT Integration Can't Wait

In tough economic times, it's easy to and sometimes extremely necessary to rethink projects and initiatives that will not have an immediate impact on the bottom line. But there are some projects that even in the darkest days should not be put on the back burner. IT integration is definitely one such project. Let's face the facts that there is ver...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity Theft Expert; Data breaches get more costly

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Excellent article by Jaikumar Vijayan here; Data breaches continue to get more costly for businesses Ponemon Institute LLC is all the buzz this week after publishing a study showing the cost of a data breach has risen significantly. The study points to companies being hesitant to inve...

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