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Call the Feds! What Bank CISOs Need to Do After a Data Breach

Financial institutions are susceptible to some of the most costly and time-consuming cyber nightmares: Social security numbers, credit card accounts, and sensitive financial data are all up for grabs when a bank is breached. In the event of an attack, bank CISOs must have a comprehensive plan, be fluent in local legalese, and call the feds — because there’s no excuse for circumventing the law.

It’s 2022. Why Isn’t Everybody Talking About Malware Hunting and Shadow IT?

The best defense is a good offense, right? Sure, assuming your offense includes solid surveillance. It’s not enough to know that cybercriminals might come for your data: You need to know when and how. Malware hunting is a good offense — it works with existing security structures to actively uncover weaknesses and potential threats — but it’s up against the rise of shadow IT, a challenge not receiving enough attention.

Post-Pandemic Banks Should Be Ready to Dump Two-Factor Authentication

What’s the Next Best Cybersecurity Innovation For Banks? Use of TFA (two-factor authentication) goes back to the 1980s, when a key fob generated a numerical code for users to append to their passwords. The evolution of this method worked well for the better part of four decades — outlasting other ’80s innovations like two-pound cellular phones and Members Only jackets — but it’s past time to change the locks on digital defenses, particularly for banks. This is not to say that all 2FAs are useles

A Pivotal Time for Innovation in Cyber — CodeHunter CEO Larry Roshfeld Featured in Technical.ly

December 8, 2021 — CEO Larry Roshfeld spoke to Technical.ly about the state of cybersecurity — and how CodeHunter is primed to disrupt it. “The real radical difference for us right now, the thing we’re doing that no one else in the world can do, is not just automate the process of investigating software to see if it’s dangerous, but do it at scale.” Read More: “Cybersecurity startup CodeHunter launches malware hunting SaaS platform”