Retail financial institutions (banks and credit unions) face the challenge of triggering a need for some of their products, such as car, home and similar loans. Putting a loan on “sale” doesn’t create the need for the product, rather it makes the product more appealing to a customer who already has the need. In other words, if a customer isn’t shopping for a car, she has no need for a car loan. So how can a bank or credit union use their website to increase loan volume by creating a need for something like a car loan? Is it possible to even create a sort of “impulse need” for a loan using a bank or credit union website? [More]
Jan 31, 2011 • by Jason Sherrill
This past week I attended a great panel discussion on Internet security titled "Internet Reconnaissance: How Secure Are You?" with featured speakers experienced in data center security to cyber war and it all boiled down to the fact that security is still a lot of work. [More]
Jan 25, 2011 • by Mac Fowler
Security gets a lot of attention in business today, but there are still some common practices that provide people with a false sense of safety when sharing sensitive data and files with others. Review these practices and make sure that everyone in your organization knows that these practices are dangerous and should not be used. [More]
Jan 20, 2011 • by Jason Sherrill
InetSolution started life developing online banking systems and software for financial institutions over 13 years ago. Our work required that our clients send us highly sensitive data. It was not uncommon for us to receive files containing thousands of bank account numbers, customer names and social security numbers. One common method our clients used to send us data was to password protect a zip file and then send one email with the zip attachment and a second email with the password. Another equally scary method was to place a file on a standard FTP server and then send us two emails, one with the username and a second with the password. Both of these methods, while common, were horribly insecure and put us, our clients and their customers at risk. That made us uneasy so we created a better method. [More]
Jan 18, 2011 • by Jason Sherrill
As part of our managed networking services we provide firewall installation, configuration & management for our business clients. Today I received this request from one of those clients that I think sums up well the conclusion that many businesses, especially those in the B2B arena, have reached about Facebook. [More]
Dec 30, 2010 • by Jason Sherrill
