FFIEC Releases Update to Cybersecurity Assessment Tool

Today the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released an update to the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT).  This update includes recent updates to the IT Examination Handbook as well as the Information Security and Management Handbooks.

The FFIEC states, “the updated Assessment will also provide additional response options, allowing financial institution management to include supplementary or complementary behaviors, practices and processes that represent current practices of the institution in supporting its cybersecurity activity assessment.”

For additional information here is a link to the press release – FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool Update