Online Banking Best Practices for Businesses
Summary: Krebs on Security's guidance for businesses on online banking recommends accessing bank accounts only from a dedicated, locked-down machine with a fresh OS install and all security updates, ideally running something other than Windows since most malware targets Windows. It also advises using a live CD to boot a Windows PC into Linux for banking sessions, bookmarking the bank's site instead of typing the address, removing unneeded software such as Java plugins, and requiring two people to sign off on every transaction.
What you should know: The article states that a majority of today's cyberheists begin with malware spread via email attachments, and that many of these threats go undetected by antivirus tools in the first few days - so the controls that matter are the ones that keep the banking session off any machine where email is opened.
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