Recently Facebook experienced the largest one-day drop in history when it’s stock price plummeted $41.24, which turned out to be a decrease just shy of 20%. Facebook’s stock price has proven to be volatile throughout 2018 between decreasing user engagement, the Cambridge Analytica data breach, and Zuckerberg’s highly televised testimony to Congress. However, the biggest hit came at the end of July when Facebook released its Q2 earnings report, which unsettled investors once they saw a decline in active Facebook users, new obstacles emerging from Europe’s updated privacy laws, and concerns regarding the monetization of ads on Instagram leading to an overarching concern about Facebook’s potential profitability moving forward. Despite the variety of issues that led to Facebook’s demise in the stock market, the source of these problems all stems from one place: Security.

In 2017, the National Credit Union Administration developed a tool to help credit unions assess their level of credit union cybersecurity preparedness. Designed for the credit union industry, the Automated Cybersecurity Examination Tool is a great resource to help credit unions to evaluate their preparedness. However, in 2018 the NCUA is using it to review credit unions larger than $1 billion in assets and will be refining the tool to see if it will scale properly for small and medium-size credit unions. With this tool on the map for all credit unions, what should we know now?