by. Hugh Smallwood It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Won’t you be My Neighbor? Let’s say you are out house hunting. What is one of the first criteria you apply? LOCATION. [...]
by. Kirk Drake Let’s face it. Sometimes a server just dies. No warning. No whimpers. Just cold hard silence. You push power button – nothing. You shake it. Nothing. The question then is “do I [...]
Heartbleed or CVE-2014-0160 is a zero day vulnerability discovered on versions of OpenSSL between 1.0.1 and 1.0.1g. The vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive information in memory. What does all this [...]
by. Robin Remines It’s no secret that email is considered one of the most valuable communications tools for credit unions. Email is used for everyday communications to staff and members and also plays a [...]
by. Robin Remines I didn’t want to write this post. In fact, I had planned a really cool piece on how backup strategies using hosted solutions can improve your recovery time objectives (RTO). And [...]
Today’s credit union technology infrastructures are so complex that savvy CIOs are stepping up their efforts to capture as much detail as possible in network diagrams. Why the sudden interest in these artfully drawn [...]
Ongoing Operations has worked with hundreds of credit unions and seen numerous disaster recovery strategies brought to their knees by poor connectivity choices. In many ways, we would argue the most important technology decision you [...]
by. Robin Remines Incidents happen all the time (storms, power failures, network outages) and credit unions must be prepared. Risk mitigation is simply part of the job for every credit union employee. Our role is [...]
by. Robin Remines Ongoing Operations has worked with hundreds of credit unions and seen numerous disaster recovery strategies brought to their knees by poor connectivity choices. In many ways, we would argue the most important [...]
by. Robin Remines I had the honor of speaking at a credit union chapter meeting this evening and while discussing my career path as a computer scientist working in a lab to an IT leader [...]
by. Kirk Drake We are all super busy in our credit union lives helping members, improving our service, adding new products and getting more efficient. All of this constant change and improvement means that we [...]
by. Robin Remines As a BCP consultant, I see a lot of credit union business continuity plans. Our credit unions run from single branch organizations to nationwide institutions and their plans are just as diverse. [...]
by. Kirk Drake About 15 years ago, the credit union I worked at decided to separate e-mail from the core system. It seem ridiculous now that we used our core for an e-mail platform and [...]
by. Robin Remines After 9 snow days this season I have to admit that I have a pretty effective pre-storm routine. About 24 hours pre-event, I receive a text alert from our county emergency services [...]
by. Robin Remines Nothing is quite as important as your firewall is when it comes to your credit union’s information security efforts. It is effectively the entry point through which all things must pass. [...]
