Security Pros Don Vieira and Demetrios ‘Laz’ Lazarikos Discuss SEC Guidance

Earlier this week we hosted a webinar that included commentary from industry insiders, Don Vieira – Partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, and Director of Strategy at Silver Tail – Demetrios ‘Laz’ Lazarikos. With extensive experience in security and the federal government, Don began the discussion by talking about how the SEC guidance impacts public businesses and Washington’s role. He noted that in a way, this updated document could be referred to as the “Disclosure Guidance,” as it clarifies exactly what information public companies need to share with stakeholders and investors. Don continued on to discuss the fact that Washington’s role is broader than regulation, and that they must identify timeframes for specific pieces of legislation to pass.

As the former head of Information Security for the Sears Online Business, Laz discussed specifics about ways companies can flag cybersecurity incidents as well as how web session intelligence can identify where malicious behavior is occurring on the website.

Overall, this latest SEC guidance has been a step in the right direction for the cybersecurity industry as it’s all about becoming aware of and having visibility into various types of attacks on websites. The proper monitoring tools need to be in place to ensure websites and mobile devices are protected and these give companies several benefits:

• Helping to identify and address malicious activity before they become major issues.
• Helping to identify areas where there are vulnerabilities so they can be corrected quickly.
• Should a hack occur, these tools can help measure the extent of the damage.

We look forward to having you participate in our upcoming webinars!

Webinar: Web Session Intelligence: A Key Ingredient for FFIEC Compliance

As banks, brokerages and other organizations are contemplating the best way to address the upcoming FFIEC requirements, there are several things that need to be taken into account. What is really “required”?  What will be “enough”?

On October 26th, join me for a discussion about strategies for addressing the FFIEC guidance and how “Web Session Intelligence” can secure the navigation layer of your website as part of your strategy for addressing the guidance.

I’ll discuss an overall plan for addressing FFIEC, including what is likely to make your review by auditors more successful. We’ll also talk about how cyber criminals are finding new ways to attack websites – from using the registration flow to guessing customer email addresses and scraping data from Intranets. These attacks are not identified by a web application
firewall, an intrusion detection system, or any other mechanism. As you consider a defense-in-depth strategy for FFIEC compliance, protecting the navigation layer through web session intelligence should be at the top of your list.

Be sure to join me on October 26h at 10:00am PDT and register today!  http://silvertailsystems.com/offers/FFIEC/intelligence.php

Webinar: Silver Tail Systems & Gartner Discuss Multi-layered Fraud Detection

With a number of recent high-profile data breaches in the headlines, and new FFIEC guidelines to address, financial institutions, e-Commerce companies and government organizations alike have a number of challenges ahead.

On July 14th, well-known Gartner analyst, Avivah Litan, will discuss how sophisticated malware attacks are rapidly shifting the Web fraud detection market landscape, making it necessary to adopt a multi-layered fraud protection strategy. With cybersecurity being a high priority for online financial institutions, Avivah will also address the newly issued FFIEC guidelines that are designed to help banks determine what technology investments to make in order to safeguard private networks and customers’ personal information from cyberattacks.

Avivah and Silver Tail Systems Co-founder and VP of Product Marketing, Laura Mather, PhD, plan to discuss new approaches to online security and how organizations should think about fraud prevention going forward. Together, they will share how several leading banks and e-Commerce organizations are proactively preventing fraud and abuse.

Join Avivah and Laura on the 14th at 10:00am PDT and learn to protect your organization against online fraud: http://www.silvertailsystems.com/offers/gartner/gartner.php

New Webinar: Detecting Man-in-the-Browser

Join us for a Webinar on July 14.

The proliferation of authentication models, device fingerprinting, IP geo-location mapping, and other security technologies has raised the stakes in using stolen online accounts.  Bad actors need to find a way to access users’ accounts without being detected by the systems currently in place.  The rise in malware infections has created a unique opportunity for these bad actors: The ability to access the account through the victim’s own web browser, IP address, and session.  These “Man-in-the-Browser” attacks are extremely difficult to detect and prevent, and are increasing with the spread of malware.

Laura Mather, Founder & VP, Product Marketing at Silver Tail Systems, will define Man-in-the-Browser attacks, explain how they are perpetrated, show a demonstration of an attack, and show the ways these types of attacks can be detected.

Join us for the first session in our Silver Tail Webinar Series, “Detecting Man-in-the-Browser Attacks”.

Title:         Detecting Man-in-the-Browser Attacks: Silver Tail Webinar Series, Part 1
Date:        Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Time:        10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
Register:   https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/470908250

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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