Chapter 1 - Beginning

  • Intros, Goals, Objectives
  • Program Introduction
  • Predictions
  • Exercise: What are you worried about?

Chapter 2 - Introduction to IS

  • Part 364 Appendix B
  • IS Triad (as covered in ITEC et al)
  • IS Programs, elements
  • Bank IT Evolution
  • Bank IS requirements, regulations, resources

Chapter 3 - Banking and Reglatory Compliance

  • What are banks scared of?
  • Recent Security Events
  • Incident and event review
  • How do we protect ourselves?
  • GLBA
  • FACTA
  • Governance vs Technology
  • Compliant vs Safe
  • NIST CSF
  • Banking Tech Trends

Chapter 4 - IT Oversight

  • Oversight vs Governance
  • Governance, Roles, Challenges

Chapter 5 - IS Fundamentals

  • Threats
  • Components - asset, actor, attribute, action
  • Application
  • Topics
  • Definitions and review
  • Vulnerability evolution
  • Cyber Kill Chain
  • Phishing is #1
  • Hacking, examples, tools

Chapter 6 - Security Policy

  • CEO / Board questions
  • Exercise: Crown Jewels
  • Ransomware
  • Importance of policy
  • Policy as the why
  • Standards as the what
  • Procedures as the how
  • Guidelines as best practices
  • Standards
  • Documents
  • Review / Update

Chapter 7 - Security Management Practices

  • Asset management
  • Security Controls: Access control
  • Security Controls: Encryption & Authentication
  • Security Controls: VPNs
  • Security Controls: Firewalls
  • Security Controls: Device Hardening
  • Security Controls: Network Access Control
  • Security Controls: Mobile Device Management

Chapter 8 - Vendor Management

  • Coutsourcing
  • Cloud services
  • Generative AI
  • Future of AI
  • Voice services
  • IT other than Core

Chapter 9 - Monitoring and Incident Response

  • Ongoing Monitoring
  • IDP and IDS
  • Host-based vs network-based
  • Signature-based vs anomaly-based
  • EDR and XDR
  • Summary and wrapup