CSI’s Top Blogs of 2021

From cybersecurity to digital transformation, many topics shaped the financial industry in 2021 and will continue to influence institutions and consumers. As you prepare to navigate the changing technology landscape in 2022, here are five of our blogs from the past year delivering valuable insight and actionable tips for your institution.

1. 7 Steps to Enhance Your Defenses against Cyberattacks

As the threat of ransomware and other cyberattacks surges, ensure your institution is prepared to confront heightened risk. Read this blog to explore:

• Essential steps to enhance your institution’s preparedness for attacks
• Ransomware and phishing attacks from 2021
• Your institution’s strongest defense against attacks

2. Digital Transformation: Digital Banking Strategies throughout the Customer Lifecycle

Although there’s a near-universal understanding of its importance, many banks struggle to implement a forward-thinking digital banking strategy. Read this blog for the digital transformation essentials, including:

• Tips to support your digital strategy
• How to create exceptional digital experiences
• Ways to mitigate digital banking security risk

3. 5 Vendor Due Diligence Checklist Tips

In today’s risky environment, vendor due diligence is one of the most important ways to protect your organization. Whether vendor management is an outsourced service or still performed in house, this blog provides insight into:

• Five tips to mature your vendor due diligence process
• Why comprehensive vendor management is necessary
• Key steps to developing a risk-based vendor due diligence checklist

4. Is It Time to Prioritize Your Institution’s Cloud Migration?

As your financial institution determines your cloud migration strategy, it’s important to fully understand cloud technology and its benefits. This blog breaks down:

• What’s limiting public cloud adoption
• The benefits of a public cloud-based IT infrastructure
• How to move forward with your cloud migration strategy

5. APIs in Banking: Four Use Cases (And Why You Should Care)

APIs’ inherent flexibility makes them suited to a diversity of uses in nearly any computing context. This blog looks at how APIs streamline operations for banks and answers the following questions:?

• What is an API?
• What are Banking APIs?
• How are Banking APIs commonly used?

Bonus Content: The 2022 Complete Core Banking Checklist ?

Although every bank must seek the?core solution?that best fits its strategy and individual needs, there are some must-haves to compete in a digital-first world. Read this blog to uncover:

• Key elements of a core processing system
• How to evaluate a solution on its broader characteristics
• Sample questions to ask potential providers

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