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#1515732 - 03/01/11 11:21 AM Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days
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How do you enforce this, when in fact a good number of employees have access to the bank's systems and records through bank-owned computers (laptops), blackberrys (e-mail) that are transportable?

I think our risk management department has caved-in as most who have the ability to access bank data via mobile devices think it is an entitlement.

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#1515763 - 03/01/11 02:09 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Delete system entitlements for all bank systems and e-mail.
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#1515834 - 03/01/11 04:12 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days edAudit
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EdAudit,

Is this what you do at your organization or is it a best practice?

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#1515949 - 03/01/11 06:27 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Our bank locks us out of the system when we are on our required time out. This will also block remote access.

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#1515961 - 03/01/11 06:40 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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You bring up a good point, but honestly, we've been through many exams lately, both State and Federal, and it's never mentioned. It's our "general policy" that employees should take 5 consecutive days off, but it's not easily verified. Unfortunately it won't become a big deal until someone embezzles from us.

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#1516034 - 03/01/11 07:53 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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EdAudit,

Is this what you do at your organization or is it a best practice?


I would say that it would be a best practice but my comment was a direct response to the original question "How do you enforce this, ..."

We do not have many mobile users here in a prior bank it was strictly enforced and audited.
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#1516099 - 03/01/11 08:46 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days edAudit
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Just completed an exam. Our policy says "strongly encourage employees to take 5 consecutive days off". Examiner in charge said we MUST change our policy to state it is required. She specifically said if anyone has remote access it MUST be disabled during the consecutive days.

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#1516104 - 03/01/11 08:53 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Is this issue coming back? Years ago examiners 'required' this. Then it went away. My last employer only required this for certain positions. I am not sure if it is required where I work now.
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#1516124 - 03/01/11 09:21 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Dazed Auditor
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Anon from post #1516099 here again. Yes, this issue went away for years. Our bank's compliance officer has been doing this 30 years and she says every 10 years or so this issue rears its ugly head. The whole thing is ridiculous. This came up in our IT exam for heaven's sake. So we got dinged on the policy not saying "required" and for not documenting exceptions. Except that we didn't HAVE ANY EXCEPTIONS! We went round and round on this one and even requested that this EIC call her supervisor, which she did. It still landed on our report.

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#1516173 - 03/01/11 11:19 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Originally Posted By: Anonymous
Anon from post #1516099 here again. Yes, this issue went away for years. Our bank's compliance officer has been doing this 30 years and she says every 10 years or so this issue rears its ugly head. The whole thing is ridiculous. This came up in our IT exam for heaven's sake. So we got dinged on the policy not saying "required" and for not documenting exceptions. Except that we didn't HAVE ANY EXCEPTIONS! We went round and round on this one and even requested that this EIC call her supervisor, which she did. It still landed on our report.


Are you an OCC regulated bank in SoCal, by any chance? I think I know who that examiner is. eek
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#1516175 - 03/01/11 11:32 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days califgirl
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Don't feel bad, our examiners want us to have TWO WEEKS out!

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#1516186 - 03/02/11 02:37 AM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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I'm not really sure what the problem is from a risk management standpoint. Why would a bank even want fight this and not have it as a standard control?????
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#1516406 - 03/02/11 05:24 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days rlcarey
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Can anyone cite the reg where the # of days out is required? I thought that it was just a best practice

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#1516408 - 03/02/11 05:26 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days this is it
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FDIC:

http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/safety/manual/section4-2.html

If you do not require vacation/time out of bank or rotate staff, your risk assessment should explain what your other mitigating controls are.
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#1516411 - 03/02/11 05:30 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Kathleen O. Blanchard
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OCC - search on vacation. It is always an internal control issue.

http://www.occ.gov/static/publications/handbook/intcntrl2.pdf
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#1516413 - 03/02/11 05:33 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Kathleen O. Blanchard
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#1627971 - 11/14/11 04:00 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Kathleen O. Blanchard
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Does it state anywhere from the OCC that remote access should be disabled during the mandatory vacation period. I only see it mentioned in the FRB transmittal letter. It makes total sense that it should be disbabled.
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#1627989 - 11/14/11 04:15 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days happyauditor
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The OCC expects you to cover your risks, but does not tell you how to do so. They expect "Adequate procedures to safeguard and manage assets".

And the handbooks are now here:

http://www.occ.gov/publications/publicat...s-handbook.html
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#1627992 - 11/14/11 04:18 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days happyauditor
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My first job, the comptroller was a fixture at his desk. FDIC told president to make him take 2 consecutive weeks off (before cell phone and remote access).

When his assistant was cleaning his desk, she noticed a letter from the state increasing doc stamps from $.10 to $.15 per hundred effective March 1st. This was discovered the end of November. It took 2 people a week to track down every note and physically put doc stamps on each one.

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#1909340 - 03/27/14 06:19 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Originally Posted By: Anonymous
How do you enforce this, when in fact a good number of employees have access to the bank's systems and records through bank-owned computers (laptops), blackberrys (e-mail) that are transportable?

I think our risk management department has caved-in as most who have the ability to access bank data via mobile devices think it is an entitlement.


Original Anon here - Just an update - It is now 3 years later and management now feels this is a risk. I believe the regulators pushed their buttons.

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#1909466 - 03/27/14 08:40 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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Original anon, what regulatory agency, if I may ask?
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#1909498 - 03/27/14 09:44 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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HA, they may not answer - the post was over 3 years ago
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#1909544 - 03/28/14 12:35 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days Anonymous
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The original anon posted yesterday.
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#1909555 - 03/28/14 01:23 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days happyauditor
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ooooops - the speed reading course did not work sorry

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#1909581 - 03/28/14 02:03 PM Re: Time Away From Bank - Five Consecutive Days happyauditor
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Originally Posted By: happyauditor
Original anon, what regulatory agency, if I may ask?


FDIC

The Directors of Risk Management and Human Resources finally put on their BIG BOY PANTIES however claim this action is a product of their partnership and collective expertise. shocked

The guidance was actually a result of the information technology examination.

Just as poster rcleary said 3 years ago, the emphasis is when employees take their 5 consecutive days away from the bank to disable permissions for VPN service access, smart phone access and facilities access. What is so difficult about that and why should there be push back from risk managment?

Of course there will need to be a collaborative effort between the employee’s management, human resources, facilities management and network services in order to make this work.

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