Generated by AI, prompted and edited by Maxwell Chalkin, EVP, Managing Director and Chief Digital Officer

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and for financial institutions, it’s more than a calendar event—it’s a call to action. As stewards of sensitive data and customer trust, banks must not only protect their systems but also empower their customers and employees to stay safe online.

By Maxwell Chalkin, Chief Digital Officer and Senior Project Manager

Oh, data. What’s to be done with it? In the current climate, it is all-important for marketing leaders to base their strategic plans on sound data, but—especially in the world of financial services—there is such an abundance of data coming from so many sources that even knowing where to begin can be a challenge.

By Dave Gaull, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Security Officer   

“U.S employee data breach tied to Chinese intelligence” & “I.R.S. Data Breach May Be Sign of More Personalized Schemes.” These headlines could make you believe that someone stealing your clients’ data is inevitable. The scary thing is, it’s not the hackers that are the largest source of data breaches. The 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study by the Ponemon Institute, a data-protection think tank, indicates that two-thirds of all global data breaches stemmed from human error and internal system problems.