Shoring up perimeter defenses and strengthening management's credentials is necessary to defend against today's cybercriminals, whose tactics continue to evolve. That's what security experts explained at the CU InfoSecurity 2016 conference this week in New Orleans.

Sarena O'Donnell, director of risk management for the Alexandria, La.-based Ingalls Information Security, spoke about the Center for Internet Security and its recommended 20 Critical Security Controls for protecting computer networks.

O'Donnell described the current state of cybersecurity, the history of the CIS' CSCs and reasons for their development.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).