Credit Union Information Security Podcast

Now it's also a Master's degree program in which instructors base their whole curriculum on helping security professionals get closer to - and rise higher in the ranks of - their companies and agencies.

In an exclusive interview, John Orlando, MSBC Program Director at Norwich University, talks about the school's Masters of Science in Information Assurance, discussing:

What happens after a major security breach such as the Heartland Payment Systems hack? How do banking institutions go about notifying their customers - whose responsibility is it?

At BB&T in Winston-Salem, NC, the role is filled by Dick Langford, Vice President and Manager, Information Security Compliance Management. In an exclusive interview, Langford discusses:

Langford has 19 years experience in information protection in the financial sector. Previously with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, he has managed elements of BB&T's information protection program since 1998. His current responsibility is directing a network of over 100 Information Security Compliance Managers representing each line of business, subsidiary, and affiliate company in BB&T Corporation, thereby ensuring compliance with federal and state information protection legislation and regulations.

BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C. , is among the nation's top financial holding companies with $152 billion in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate approximately 1,500 financial centers in the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Indiana and Washington, D.C.

A seasoned NCUA executive, Love has served as regional director of the NCUA's Region V office for 5 1/2 years, and she served as director of the former Chicago regional office. Love is a past NCUA deputy executive director and she has also served as deputy director within NCUA's Office of Examination and Insurance. Her NCUA career began in 1986 as an examiner in Northern California. She is a former principal examiner, problem case officer, supervision analyst, supervisory examiner and acting director of special actions. Love participated in NCUA's management development program in the early 1990s.

Love holds a degree in accounting and an MBA from St. Mary's College. She is a certified internal auditor.

Madian is an economist, management consultant and investment banker who currently serves as a director with LECG, a global expert services and consulting firm. He has provided services as an expert witness, policy advisor, strategy and implementation consultant, and financial advisor for more than 25 years. He has testified on damages and liability in commercial litigation, on the determination of regulated rates of return, and on contractual allocation of risk. Madian has conducted antitrust and market power analyses, testified in antitrust litigation, and served as an advisor to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust.

In an exclusive interview, Isaac discusses:

Isaac is chairman of the Secura Group, a leading financial institutions consulting firm, operating as a division of LECG. The Secura Group provides financial advisory services, strategic planning, regulatory counseling, risk-management services, strategic studies, and general management consulting for financial institutions. LECG, of which Isaac is a managing director, is one of the world's leading expert services firm with professionals serving Global Fortune 500 firms from offices around the world. Isaac also serves as chairman of various Isaac family real estate development companies. He writes for the American Banker and other publications and is a frequent speaker before banking groups. He is also a founding member of the American Bankers Council.

Nancy Atkinson is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in wholesale banking issues including wholesale payments, trade finance and financial supply chain and working capital management. Her recent research has focused on electronic check processing and clearing, innovation in accounts payables and receivables, and transitions in the global wholesale payments market. She has also examined opportunities to leverage procurement cards in corporate payables and the impact of health savings accounts on banks.

This is the news from the fifth annual Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Javelin founder and President, discusses:

In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Founder and President of Javelin Strategy & Research, discusses the implications of the Heartland case, offering insight on:

Van Dyke is founder and president of Javelin Strategy & Research. Javelin is the leading provider of independent, quantitative and qualitative research for payments, multi-channel financial services, security and fraud initiatives. Javelin's clients include the largest financial institutions, card issuers and technology vendors in the industry.

That said, job opportunities for information security students abound - in both the private and public sectors.

In an exclusive interview, Dr. Peter Stephenson, CISO at Norwich University, discusses:

Stephenson is a writer, consultant, researcher and lecturer on information assurance and risk, digital investigation and forensics on large-scale computer networks. He has lectured extensively on digital investigation and security and has written or contributed to 14 books and several hundred articles, in major national and international trade, technical and scientific publications. He is the Associate program director in the Master of Science in Information Assurance program at Norwich University and is a research professor at the National Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime, also at Norwich.