Tracy Kitten

Former Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

Kitten was director of global events content and an executive editor at ISMG. A veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience, she covered the financial sector for over 10 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

EMV Push in U.S. Moving Forward

Tracy Kitten • April 23, 2015

Eduardo Perez, Visa's senior vice president of risk services, says the U.S. push for EMV is moving forward, even though a majority of U.S. merchants will not make the October 2015 liability shift date.

Breaches: How to Protect Your Data

Tracy Kitten • April 22, 2015

The threat landscape is constantly changing, and so is the information deemed valuable to hackers. Tom Kellermann of Trend Micro discusses how organizations can improve how they protect data.

Authentication: Going Beyond the User

Tracy Kitten • April 22, 2015

Stronger authentication is just a piece of the fraud-prevention puzzle. Emphasis is now being placed on back-end analytics and monitoring that remove the user from the process, says Bryan Jardine of Easy Solutions.

Lessons from Intelligence Info Sharing

Tracy Kitten • April 21, 2015

Mark Clancy, CEO of Soltra, which provides an automated information sharing platform, says banks and credit unions that don't share threat intelligence will never advance their information risk management practices.

Cybersecurity: Whose Job Is It?

Tracy Kitten • April 21, 2015

Most organizations are still doing poor jobs of adequately communicating threat information, even within their own organizations. Shawn Henry, President of CrowdStrike, offers strategies for the C-suite.

Information Sharing: A Matter of Trust

Tracy Kitten • April 19, 2015

Attitudes about cyberthreat information sharing, as well as attack attribution, have dramatically changed in the last 18 months, says the FS-ISAC's Bill Nelson, a featured speaker at RSA Conference 2015.

RSA Conference 2015: Banking Preview

Tracy Kitten • April 15, 2015

In the wake of the breaches suffered by JPMorgan Chase, Sony and Anthem, attack attribution and information sharing are playing more prominent roles for banking leaders, and they will be key discussion points at the upcoming RSA Conference 2015 in San Francisco.

BitSight CEO on Nation-State Attacks

Tracy Kitten • April 9, 2015

The advanced and persistent nature of today's cyber-attacks, which are often waged by nation-states, is changing the way organizations address network security, says BitSight CEO Shaun McConnon.

PCI: Retailer Security Failures

Tracy Kitten • April 6, 2015

Troy Leach of the PCI Security Standards Council says data security standards are not failing; they just aren't being applied continuously. And conformance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is just one piece of the puzzle.

Big Data Analytics: Lessons Learned

Tracy Kitten • April 6, 2015

Most organizations have yet to realize the cybersecurity benefits of big data analytics, says Russell Thomas of Zions Bank. He explains steps the pioneering bank is taking to revolutionize its big data operations.

New Malware Attacks Prey on Banks

Tracy Kitten • April 6, 2015

Security experts advise banking institutions to take several steps, including enhancing authentication and ramping up commercial customer education, as a result of an increase in sophisticated online banking attacks involving a new variant of Dyre malware.