A Look to the Future
By: Jerry Sutherin, President & CEO, Young & Associates, Inc. On January 31, 2018, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to purchase Young & Associates, Inc. from Mr. Gary...
By: Jerry Sutherin, President & CEO, Young & Associates, Inc. On January 31, 2018, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to purchase Young & Associates, Inc. from Mr. Gary...
By: Mike Detrow, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT Over the past two years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of community bank IT managers that have...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT As the recent Equifax breach illustrates, failing to remediate known vulnerabilities in a timely manner can have significant consequences. In...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT At small community banks, the IT Manager role was once, and in some cases still is, one of many hats...
On May 31, 2017, the FFIEC announced an update to the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool which includes a change within the cybersecurity maturity section of the tool and an updated mapping...
By: Mike Detrow, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT Technology has changed significantly at community banks over the past 15 years. For many years, banks only had to manage a...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of I.T. Assessments show that the human element is always the weakest link in the security chain. It is not uncommon for...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT As part of its continued focus on cybersecurity, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) September 2016 Information Security Handbook...
By: Mike Detrow, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT Financial institutions have begun the process of completing the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool provided by the FFIEC and some are struggling to...
By: Mike Detrow, CISSP, Senior Consultant and Manager of IT Maybe your data went to a football game on an employee’s smart phone. Or, perhaps your data met some international...