If the folks at TrustCC attempt to penetrate your security systems, chances are they'll have some bad news for you.

Tom Schauer, CEO of the University Place, Wash.-based IT and security assessment firm, said in 2013, the company's employees gained access to the internal network at 63% of the credit unions they tested. Seventy-nine percent of the time they were able to compromise sensitive data, and escalate to domain admin privileges 58% of the time.

TrustCC's testing approach includes loading onto the target system a program that will give them remote control of the computer, Schauer explained. That, he added, is exactly what the bad guys are doing.

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