Rivial’s Cybersecurity blog

The Savvy CISO

Cybersecurity management insights, tips, and trends for security leaders, CISOs, vCISOs, and MSSPs who want to work smarter, not harder.

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FedLine: Streamline Your Assessment

We hope you found our last blog, "FedLine Assessment 101: A Step-by-Step Guide," informative and helpful in understanding the basics of the FedLine assessment process. In this article, we'll be delving deeper into the assessment process and...

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FedLine Assessment 101: A Step-by-Step Guide

The FedLine Solutions Security and Resiliency Assurance Program is a critical component for financial institutions to ensure the security and...

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How to do an IT Risk Assessment | Rivial Data Security

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Complete Guide to IT Risk Assessments

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, financial institutions face a multitude of cybersecurity challenges. Protecting sensitive data and...

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PCI DSS Compliance Checklist & Requirements

What is PCI DSS 4.0? The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard was established in 2004 as a collection of information security standards...

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How Encryption Helps to Keep Your Data Secure

Often referred to as disk encryption, this keeps data safe by encoding all storage drives on a computer into ciphertext. You can encrypt hard drives...

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4 Steps for Handling HIPAA Violations

In a recent post, we covered HIPAA Compliance, and everything your business needs to know if it is handling any kind of data related to patients...

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GDPR vs. CCPA Comparison

The General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Protection Act, GDPR and CCPA respectively, are two landmark judgments passed in...

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FinTech Risk Management Framework & Regulation

Financial technology companies, more commonly referred to as FinTechs, are now facing potential disruption risk from industry regulators. The key to...

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What Does A Firewall Protect Against?

When you first start getting serious about data security for your business, many suggestions will be made to help you defend things like your...

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Data Breach Statistics to Know for 2023

People rarely like to talk about data breach statistics because the breaches themselves can be so detrimental to a company. In fact, they can harm...

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