June 16, 2014 FSSCC Welcomes Greg Garcia as Executive Director FSSCC has appointed Greg Garcia to serve as the Council’s first executive director. Greg was the nation’s first Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Communications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President Bush from 2006-09. He also served in the FSSCC leadership as chair of the Cyber Security Committee in 2011 in his capacity as Bank of America’s Partnership Executive. Read More

June 16, 2014 FSSCC Names Russell Fitzgibbons New Chair Russell Fitzgibbons, executive vice president and chief risk officer, The Clearing House, was named as the new FSSCC Chairman during the Council’s recent meeting in New York City. Fitzgibbons takes over from Charles Blauner, global head of information security for Citi, whose two-year term as the FSSCC chair included important accomplishments in improving the state of security and resilience of the financial sector. Read More

September 30, 2014 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2014 Read More

September 30, 2014 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA WEBINAR SERIES On October 9, the Federal Executive Boards in New York City and Northern New Jersey, in partnership with FEMA Region II, the Department of Health and Human Services Region II, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and the Clearing House Association, will host the second part of a Pandemic Influenza Webinar session. Scheduled from 10-11:30am ET, “Pandemic Training Webinar II – Power, Communications and Internet Connectivity in a Pandemic Event”, will address topics such as: Service prioritization in the event that everyone had to work […]

October 11, 2014 CYBERSECURITY FRAMEWORK SURVEY RESULTS In response to a request for information by the National Institute of Standards and Technology about industry awareness and use of the of the Cybersecurity Framework released last February, the FSSCC submitted on October 10 its summary of two separate surveys it conducted with FSSCC members, and smaller institutions in the FS-ISAC membership. Read More