FDIC Spotlights Importance Of Bank Incident Response Programs

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's latest quarterly Supervisory Insights newsletter features an article titled "Incident Response Programs: Don't Get Caught Without One". From the abstract: "A security incident can damage corporate reputations, cause financial losses, and foster identity theft, and banks are increasingly becoming targets for attack because they hold valuable data that, when compromised, allow criminals to steal an individual's identity and drain financial accounts. To mitigate the effects of security breaches, organizations are finding it necessary to develop formal incident response programs (IRPs). This article highlights the importance of IRPs to a bank's information security program and provides information on required content and best practices banks may consider when developing effective response programs."