Credit Union Information Security Podcast

Landry is the Ellis Endowed Chair of Technology Management, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance at the University of Dallas. He joined the University of Dallas in the fall of 2006, following six years of teaching at the University of New Orleans. He has worked in network security and design in the private and public sector and earned his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University. Landry has published numerous journal articles on Information Technology in the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Communications of the ACM (CACM), Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, International Journal of Services and Standards, Journal Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Change Management and others.

Fryzel was sworn into office as Chairman of the NCUA on July 29, 2008. President George W. Bush nominated Mr. Fryzel to the NCUA Board on November 30, 2007, and his nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate June 26, 2008. The NCUA Board consists of three members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to regulate all federally-chartered credit unions and administer the federal fund insuring member accounts in approximately 8,000 credit unions nationwide. Prior to his NCUA service, Fryzel was an attorney in private practice specializing in financial, regulatory and real estate law. In that capacity, he represented credit unions and other financial service industries as well as various trade organizations. Fryzel also served as DUI Prosecutor for the Illinois Secretary of State and Hearing Officer for the Motor Vehicle Review Board.

Beasley is the Deloitte Professor of Enterprise Risk Management at the College of Management at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Initiative at NC State provides thought leadership about ERM practices and their integration with strategy and corporate governance. As founding director, Dr. Beasley leads the ERM Initiative's efforts to help pioneer the development of this emergent discipline through outreach to business professionals, with its ongoing ERM Roundtable Series and ERM Executive Education for boards and senior executives; research, advancing knowledge and understanding of ERM issues; and undergraduate and graduate business education for the next generation of business executives (www.erm.ncsu.edu). He frequently works with boards of directors and senior management teams to assist them in strengthening their risk oversight processes.

Kris VanBeek, SVP of Information Systems at Digital Federal Credit Union, discusses:

VanBeek is a banking/security leader with deep experience in banking and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining DCU five years ago, he spent time as a supervisory manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; data center manager at Fiserv; senior IT specialist and examiner with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Digital Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by and operated for its members. DCU was chartered in October of 1979. DCU serves more than 350,000 members and their families in all 50 states. DCU is the largest credit union headquartered in New England as measured by assets and among the top 15 nationwide.

These were the questions on Dennis Simmons' mind when his trade organization, SWACHA, the electronics payments resource, launched a recent survey on consumer usage of electronic payments.

In an exclusive interview, Simmons discusses:

Simmons has over 20 years experience as the senior operations officer of several Dallas area banks. A frequent speaker and recognized expert on payments system issues, he is currently a member of the Board of NACHA, the immediate Past Chair of NACHA's Electronic Check Council and immediate past Co-Chair of NACHA's Risk Management Advisory Group. He was recognized by Transaction World as one of its 2007 "Movers and Shakers" in the payments business and is the recipient of two public service awards from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He is an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP).

SWACHA is an official source for the ACH Operating Rules and represents its members in national issues and the rule-making process. SWACHA's mission is to be the resource of choice for education, training, representation and knowledge regarding payments and payments system risk.

Charlie Miller, former director of vendor governance at Merrill Lynch, offers his insight on improving vendor management, including:

Miller provides advisory consulting services in the areas of outsourcing, privacy, information security and business continuity. He brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services, focusing on governance, risk and control. While at Merrill Lynch, Miller held key positions in the design and implementation of major global initiatives, including privacy and incident response, information leakage and data protection.

Sartin heads up the investigative response team at Verizon Business. As a senior forensics examiner, he has taken the lead in many high-profile data compromise investigations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In addition, Sartin is well-versed in both criminal and civil computer forensic procedures, is a certified expert witness, and is a frequent course instructor and speaker on the topics of incident response planning, computer forensics and regulatory compliance.

What are some of the key audit and risk trends to track? David Melnick of Deloitte answers that question in an interview focusing on:

Melnick is a principal in security and privacy services within the audit and enterprise risk services practice in the Los Angeles office of Deloitte and brings more than 17 years of experience designing, developing, managing and auditing large scale secure technology infrastructure. Melnick has authored several technology books and is a frequent speaker on the topics of security and electronic commerce.

Sciacca spent 23 years at the FDIC, where he led examination, supervisory and bank rescue transaction projects in Detroit, New York, and Washington DC. From 1983-1986, Sciacca was Assistant to the Chairman, representing the Chairman on interagency matters, at bank trade association meetings and on all operational and policy matters. Sciacca served as the FDIC's representative on the Vice President's Task Group on the Regulation of Financial Services. In 1996, he returned to the FDIC to establish that agency's International Branch and from 1997-2002 served as the head of all supervisory policy, including domestic and international bank supervision, capital markets and accounting policy.

In an exclusive interview, Daniel Likarish, faculty of the Regis University School of Computer & Info Sciences, discusses:

Regis University, with nearly 16,000 students, comprises Regis College, College for Professional Studies and Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions. The University is recognized by U. S. News & World Report as a Top School in the West and is one of 28 Catholic Jesuit colleges and universities throughout the United States. Regis University is located at 3333 Lowell Blvd. at 50th Street in north Denver. In addition to its north Denver Lowell campus, the University has campus locations in Aurora, Colorado Springs, Interlocken at Broomfield, Denver Tech Center, Fort Collins, Longmont and two in Las Vegas, Nevada.