OPERATIONAL RISK

Cyber & Data Security

Prevention and risk mitigation are key components in every aspect of bank operations - the same holds true in the protection of customer data.

Cybersecurity is the prevention of damage to, protection of, and restoration of data, systems and processes. Cybersecurity has three main components, data security, user security, and infrastructure security.

Data security is the concepts or strategies used to keep data secure. Data security focuses on protecting personally identifiable information (PII) from unauthorized access as one would see during a cyber breach or other significant cyber incident.

Prevention and risk mitigation are key components in every aspect of bank operations - the same holds true in the protection of customer data.

Sector Initiatives

Sheltered Harbor

Sheltered Harbor promotes the stability and resiliency of the financial sector through industry-developed standards for protecting and recovering customer account data if a catastrophic event causes critical systems - including backups - to fail.

.BANK

.BANK is an evolution in relationship management, offering a trusted, verified, more secure, and easily identifiable location on the internet for your customers and your bank, regardless of size. .BANK provides a trustworthy stamp of approval for your online offerings.

Cyber and Data Security News

More terrorist attacks linked to digital assets: UN

Nov 1, 2022 | NewsWatch Today
Up to 20% of terrorist attacks are financed by crypto-assets or otherwise linked to digital assets, a United Nations official told Bloomberg. The UN’s Svetlana Martynova said officials are detecting more cases of crypto use in terror-financing as they step up their scrutiny of such practices.

Former Uber exec convicted for not disclosing breach

Oct 7, 2022 | NewsWatch Today
Uber’s former chief security officer was convicted of failing to disclose a 2016 data breach in the first criminal prosecution of an executive related to the handling of a breach.