David Pollino

Former CISO, PNC Bank

David is an experienced security and risk executive with over 25 years of experience in information security, fraud prevention, and risk management. David has focused on financial services for 20 years and was the Chief Information Security Officer of Bank of the West and a Divisional CISO at PNC. David has held multiple leadership positions in Security and Fraud including Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. David has authored multiple books and whitepapers focused around Cyber Security and Fraud. David is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and frequently quoted in the media on security topics.

Business Email Masquerading: How Hackers are Fooling Employees to Commit Fraud

Presented by David Pollino • May 1, 2015

In the past year, so-called business email compromise attacks, also known as "masquerading" and "executive impersonation," have emerged as one of the banking industry's greatest wire fraud worries. These schemes threaten to overshadow what the industry previously saw from commercial account takeover incidents. In...

An EMV Reality Check and The Future Of Payment Card Security

Presented by Liz Garner , David Pollino , Ken Stasiak , Krista Tedder • May 1, 2015

As the U.S. embarks upon its migration to EMV, fraudsters will begin testing other vulnerabilities and channels to exploit. As EMV alone does not protect all transaction-related data from exposure during a breach, we need to take a look at a broad range of complementary technologies, such as tokenization, encryption...

Threat Intelligence and OSINT: What You Can Learn About Your Adversaries and What They Can Learn About You

Presented by Lance James , David Pollino • November 6, 2014

There are two main critical components of intelligence gathering. The most widely accepted is external threat intelligence, gathered from monitoring and sharing malicious activity. But equally - if not more - important is the need to understand what your attackers know about you: "open source" information that is...

Consumer Fraud Awareness: What's Working, What's Not & What's Next?

Presented by David Pollino • November 6, 2014

With social engineering, phishing and a host of other attacks on the rise, the consumer remains the most vulnerable link in the fraud chain. Banks and financial institutions are helping to lead the way in education, supported by organizations like the FFIEC which recently issued new guidance on security awareness for...

2014 Faces of Fraud

Presented by Tom Field , Kate Larson , David Pollino • November 6, 2014

As the Target and Home Depot incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging realms of virtual and mobile...

Account Takeover 2014: Evolving Schemes & Solutions

Presented by Doug Johnson , David Pollino • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - It has been nearly three years since the FFIEC issued updated guidance aimed in part at curtailing incidents of corporate account takeover. Yet, banking/security leaders today say their current anti-fraud investments have done little to reduce fraud incidents or losses. What do the...

Customer Awareness: What Works in Fraud Detection, Prevention

Presented by David Pollino • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - As part of its 2011 updated authentication guidance, the FFIEC placed a heavy emphasis on security awareness for banking customers. In this case study from the 2014 Chicago Fraud Summit, Bank of the West's David Pollino, a leader in educating commercial and consumer customers about fraud...

2014 Faces of Fraud

Presented by Daniel Ingevaldson , David Pollino , Matthew M. Speare • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - As the Target and Neiman Marcus incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging...