Archive for Action Items
The Most Overlooked Aspect in Credit Union Security
There is one big, scary security hole in credit unions that most IT people pass over and I’ve never heard an auditor mention: domain registration and DNS hosting. Whoa, whoa, whoa, DNS sounds technical. And it is. But domain registration is very self explanatory. You’ve seen the GoDaddy commercials (or bought domains in a drunken stupor late at night) so you [...]
Read moreAction Items: Free (or near free) Ideas for Credit Unions
Two weeks ago, I got on my little soapbox and wrote about how credit unions and the blogosphere are stuck on inactivity. In the spirit of helping to resolve that issue, I’ve decided to launch a new section of the site called “Action Items”. As you may have guessed, it will include things that almost any credit union [...]
Read moreDon't get filtered out
I mentioned a few posts back about a company called OpenDNS that provides a recursive DNS service. That’s a fancy way of saying that they are the phone book for the internet and translate IP addresses into people-friendly domains like cuna.org. Every computer that you get on points to a DNS server, whether is is [...]
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