Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security [ Source: Centrify ]
November 2011- Detailed actions of privileged users is critical in today's business environment of IT outsourcing, off-shoring and supplementing IT staff with contractors.<br><br> Regulations require documenting what users actually do with the privileges and rights granted to them and how their actions impact the IT environment. Traditional approaches, such as log files, cannot fully meet these requirements.<br><br> For a full accounting of what specific actions ...

Watch List Filtering Solution Considerations [ Source: Bank of America ]
November 2008- Watch list filtering solutions' primary requirement is to routinely scan current and prospective clients against a database (watch list) consisting of names, aka and address entries. This paper describes standard points which need to be considered to implement a watch list filtering solution and a high-level process flow. It does not matter whether a custom solution is built or a standard product is chosen.

Strengthening governance, risk and compliance in the banking industry [ Source: SAP ]
June 2010- In absolute terms, banks have progressed farther than companies in many other industries in automating financial processes, and yet their gains may be proportionately smaller in terms of the needs of a financial services industry sector. Banks have more to lose from inefficient financial processes and they have faced intensified regulatory compliance demands, both in the case of general regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the United States, the globally mandated industry-specific demands of ...

Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security [ Source: Centrify ]
November 2011- Detailed actions of privileged users is critical in today's business environment of IT outsourcing, off-shoring and supplementing IT staff with contractors.<br><br> Regulations require documenting what users actually do with the privileges and rights granted to them and how their actions impact the IT environment. Traditional approaches, such as log files, cannot fully meet these requirements.<br><br> For a full accounting of what specific actions ...

CRA Compliance [ Source: Marquis ]
December 1990- As an organization that serves financial institutions worldwide, we adhere to the security policies demanded by the industry and the regulators. We perform annual security audits to verify that our staff is following the procedures required to assure the privacy of all confidential data. We also have a SAS 70 Level II audit performed annually.

Survival of the Fittest: Turning Your Financial Institution into a Lean, Mean Lending Machine [ Source: Harland Financial Solutions ]
May 2010- The economic crisis of the last 18 months has transformed the financial services industry, particularly the lending industry. After building credit operations that facilitated high-volume lending, financial institutions in the UK are now faced with many challenges through 2010 and into 2011. These challenges may be addressed by implementing some of the following strategies: (1) defining clear and consistent lending policy with process, (2) streamlining lending workflows by unifying the myriad of system silos currently deployed, (3) enhancing information management by ...

Improving Data Security and PCI Compliance through Key Management Controls [ Source: Venafi, Inc. ]
March 2010- Organizations of all sizes and industries maintain extensive financial, customer and mission-critical business data. When sensitive information is misused or compromised, organizations often pay a heavy price. Recent high-profile security breaches have cost organizations millions in revenue and lost opportunities. These fears, along with new security standards and regulations, have driven IT professionals to deploy encryption more broadly. In this model, the encryption keys used to secure data become the figurative “keys to the kingdom.” ...

Using a Credit Risk Analysis & Monitoring Dashboard to Support Basel II Compliance [ Source: Panopticon Software ]
August 2009- Panopticon’s Credit Risk Analysis & Monitoring Solution is an advanced set of data visualizations delivered in an easy-to-use, interactive Executive Dashboard. The system allows bank managers to understand their true level of risk exposures at all times and share that information in a timely manner with auditors, regulators, clients, or even the public. Kaveh Mossavati will explain how to build, deploy and use a Credit Risk Analysis & Monitoring Executive Dashboard. He has developed this tool ...