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The Consumerization of IT

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:44:53 +0000

Curt Frierson, Chief Technology Officer As someone who makes a living in the IT industry, I always find new technologies interesting. Most of the time, my interest centers around the new capabilities an innovative technology promises, the efficiencies it can provide, or the cost savings it can deliver. Sometimes, however, a technology comes along that [...]

Enhancements Made to Client Services

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:42:02 +0000

Brent Moore, Director of Customer Support Happy Holidays from all of us at Safe Systems! It is hard to believe that another year has gone by and now we are quickly approaching 2012. I would like to take the opportunity to reflect on 2011 and share some of the operational improvements we have made this [...]

What are the Real Benefits of CAPS?

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:26:27 +0000

Marshall Jones, Director of Managed Services Development If you haven’t heard yet, CAPS is Safe Systems’ newly developed Critical Application Patching Service. It is used to patch non-Microsoft critical applications such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Java, and QuickTime. For every Network Admin in the financial industry, patching (of some form or another) always seems [...]

Compliance with the Internet Banking Authentication Updates

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:25:25 +0000

Tom Hinkel, Director of Compliance Compliance with the update to Internet Banking Authentication regulations begins January 2012, and judging by the number of searches for “internet banking risk assessment” being directed to the ComplianceGuru site it is definitely an area of concern for financial institutions. I have a number of resources to help you get [...]

News from the Field: 10 Tips for End Users to Enhance Security

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:24:06 +0000

Toni Dowdy, Account Manager Computer security is ever-changing and ever-growing in complexity. Each and every day we see more threats and vulnerabilities emerging from many different origins. One of the challenges that financial institutions constantly face is how to help keep your own customers safe when it comes to technology. Although it may be unreasonable [...]

Making a List, Checking it Twice…Examiners are Coming to Town

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:21:57 +0000

Jamie Davis, VP, Quality and Education It has been said before, but I think it is worth repeating: the best way to prepare for an exam is to define a series of processes to be performed on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly schedule and follow this schedule religiously. With so many other duties [...]

Company Announcements

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:04:30 +0000

2012 Safe Systems’ National Users Conference Client Referral Program New Surveys Compliance Guru In the News New Employee 2012 Safe Systems’ National Users Conference- Register Now Our upcoming conference is on May 15-17, 2012 at Chateau Élan Resort near Atlanta. This educational conference is only $495 for the early bird special and even includes hotel [...]

Letter from the President

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:13:49 +0000

Darren Bridges, President As a college student back in the early 80’s my summer job was as a teller at a community bank in downtown Macon, Georgia. Through that job I was fortunate to meet many of the local business leaders and saw first-hand the important role the community financial institution played in overall community [...]

Safe Systems’ Hosted Exchange Service, SafeSysMail, Survives Hurricane and Beats a Virus at the Same Time

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:09:36 +0000

Jay Butler, Manager of Client Implementations The Hurricane: As Hurricane Irene was bearing down on the East Coast, I was proud to know our SafeSysMail subscribers could still rely on email communications in spite of the storm. The SafeSysMail servers and infrastructure are housed in state-of-the-art facilities designed to withstand power outages and natural disasters. [...]

Examination Experience Survey Results

info@safesystems.com (Safe Systems, Inc.) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:07:25 +0000

Tom Hinkel, Director of Compliance First off, a big thanks to all of you who participated in the recent compliance examination experience survey. We received a total of 80 responses this time, including 20 non-Safe Systems customers. Most of the results were somewhat predictable (80% of you had the FDIC as your primary federal regulator), [...]