Ken Palla

Since 2005, Ken has been in Online Security.  He was a Director at MUFG Union Bank, retiring in early 2019.  He helped shape the initial responses to the U.S. 2005 and 2011 FFIEC Regulatory Guidance to improve online security for US Banks.  He is an early adopter and has selected and implemented a number of online security products.   Ken was an advisor to the RSA eFraud Global Forum and a Program Committee member for the annual San Francisco RSA Conference.  He is currently on The Knoble Scam Committee.  He has recently published three white papers—one on the need to focus on online customer safety, one on online authentication and one on how to select a multi-factor authentication solution.  He has been blogging on consumer financial scams and focusing on when financial institutions offer reimbursement.  He also was the editor for the complete list of definitions of financial scams, published by The Knoble in 2022.  In 2019, he received the Legends of Fraud Award at the 3rd annual FraudCON conference in Israel.  He is currently consulting to banks and to online security vendors.