Content by Tom Field

Pandemic Preparation: How do Financial Institutions Stack up?

Tom Field  •  April 2, 2008

Of all the major areas of business continuity/disaster recovery, pandemic preparation is where financial institutions say they've done the least work. And yet it is the major focus of banking regulators, which in 2008 expect institutions to step up their pandemic preparation efforts. In this interview, Regina...

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Wrap-Up

Tom Field  •  March 31, 2008

Timing is everything, and March was the perfect time to focus on business continuity and disaster recovery. On the heels of our State of Information Security survey, which showcased your main areas of concern (namely, pandemic preparation), March saw the release of important new guidance: the Federal Financial...

Editor's Note: Focus on Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

Tom Field  •  March 3, 2008

Pandemic preparation gets the lion's share of the headlines when it comes to Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery these days. And that's fine. The topic deserves the attention. Needs it. But that's not to say that pandemic preparation is the only topic of BC/DR conversation.

Stephen Katz on Top InfoSec Issues of 2008

Tom Field  •  February 29, 2008

He was the world's first Chief Information Security Officer, and for over 25 years now he has been a true banking/security leader. Stephen Katz, former CISO at Citigroup, now founder and President of Security Risk Solutions, an information security company providing consulting and advisory services, sat down with...

The State of Banking Information Security Overview and Roundtable

Tom Field  •  February 15, 2008

It's a project that really represents about a year's worth of work and organization on our part, and on yours too. We started months ago. Information Security Media Group just started to visualize this project, the issues that we wanted to talk about - knowing the regulatory issues that were coming down, things that...

The State of Banking Information Security 2008

Tom Field  •  February 4, 2008

If there's one single notion common to financial institutions of all sizes, it is confidence -the need to have shared trust with employees, partners and especially customers. Without this confidence, banking institutions cannot succeed. And if there's one common theme emerging from the inaugural State of Banking...

10 Most-Read Stories of 2007

Tom Field  •  December 21, 2007

You've seen the biggest stories of 2007. Now here's a list of the most popular stories of the year, as determined by our site traffic.