Using Your BIA and Data Flow Diagrams to Understand Risk
Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) are one of the areas financial institutions tend to struggle with the most. When performed as a compliance exercise (DFD’s are the top FFIEC CAT control that institutions aren’t completing), a DFD often looks like a Network Diagram and has little value. But when we dive in and look at building a valuable DFD, you’ll find an answer to the question “where does my data go when it leaves my network, and how is that data being protected?”