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Xamin Cybersecurity Experts: Preventing Another $1 Billion Heist
Xamin:
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WHAT:
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Since 2013, as much as $1 billion in American dollars was stolen
from financial institutions worldwide, according to a statement
from Kaspersky Lab (News - Alert). Unlike many recent breaches, which targeted
consumers, hackers used phishing and malware to access the
financial institutions' internal networks, administrators'
computers and video surveillance systems.
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"Once they got into the network, they learned how to hide their
malicious plot behind legitimate actions," said Sergey Golovanov,
principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab's Global Research
and Analysis Team. Sanjay Virmani, director of the INTERPOL
Digital Crime Centre, added that no sector is immune to attack
"and must constantly address their security procedures."
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Hackers leverage a variety of common ancillary devices that reside
on financial institutions' networks, such as printers, scanners,
security cameras and others, to easily access internal systems and
execute harmful attacks. Xamin, a leading national managed IT
service provider for community banks, healthcare and other highly
regulated industries, is available to discuss how financial
institutions can eliminate these types of threats by taking
immediate, proactive steps, including:
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-- Effective patch management and code changes to vital systems;
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-- Recurring network scans for new and/or previously undetected
software;
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-- Essential anti-virus and malware detection; and
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-- Advanced approaches to the detection and remediation of threats.
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Xamin will be available at ICBA Community Banking LIVE
(#ICBALive2015), March 1 and 2 in Orlando, Fla. (booth #244), as
well as the annual ProfitStars® PEC Educational Conference
(#PEC2015), March 16-19 in New Orleans (booth #34).
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WHO:
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Lonny Brooks is manager of Security Services at Xamin, Inc., where
he oversees the activities and responsibilities of the security team
and its projects. With more than two decades of technical and client
relations experience, he previously served as IT architect for
Liquidity Services (News - Alert), Inc., where he was responsible for supervising
net and compute teams, turning up new sites and maintaining and
enhancing enterprise platform standards. Brooks also served as
platform architect and senior systems engineer at Verizon (News - Alert) Terremark,
designing solutions to protect petabytes of customer data on a
weekly basis for its largest customers.
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CONTACT:
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Michael Touchton / 678-781-7215 / [email protected]
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About Xamin
Founded in 1999, Xamin, Inc. is a Chicago based company offering
industry leading IT services to financial institutions as well as other
highly regulated industries. The company provides consulting, managed IT
services and integration of a full suite of security, cloud and vendor
solutions. Xamin specializes in transforming IT to a revenue driving
capability for an organization rather than a cost and compliance
challenge. Xamin's Shaped by Auditors for AuditorsSM
initiative ensures its managed services meet the needs of auditors, and
the company has committed annually to the examination and reporting of
controls in a service organization under the SOC2 Type II certification.
For more information, please visit www.xamin.com
or call 1-844-44XAMIN.
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