January 28, 2020 SEC Releases More Cyber Best Practices, Including Surprise Additions In advance of National Data Privacy Day today, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)…
December 9, 2019 Countdown to CCPA: Are You Ready to Comply with New Data Privacy Requirements? With less than one month before the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is effective, companies are preparing to update their…
October 7, 2019 Can We Say That Now? Predictions on Marketing and Advertising Amendments Can we say that now? That’s what attendees at the recent CSS Compliance Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona wanted to find…
October 3, 2019 Recent Privacy Law Changes for Advisers a Focus of Cyber Discussion in Scottsdale Regulators and legislators certainly have been busy in 2019, leaving little breathing room for financial firms. More data privacy laws…
September 13, 2019 CFTC Orders Firm to Pay $1.5 Million in Connection with Phishing Cyber Breach, Cites Inadequate Cyber Training The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) isn’t holding back when it comes to holding firms accountable for protecting their client’s…
September 12, 2019 Cayman Islands Data Protection Law Nears Taking Effect Cybersecurity regulations have landed ashore on the islands, and life is about to become anything but a beach for firms…
July 9, 2019 How Can a Small Advisory Practice Economically Be as Cyber-Secure as Possible? Cybersecurity is a risk that applies to firms both large and small without discrimination. Even very small advisory firms, which…
May 24, 2019 SEC Begins Cyber Sweep of Investment Advisers with Focus on Cloud Storage A sweep of investment advisers is underway by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which has sent out many letters…
May 24, 2019 What Happens When Your CRM is Breached? Even your client relationship management (CRM) software may not be safe from hackers. That’s the lesson some advisers are learning…
February 11, 2019 Coming to America – California Adopts GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation After a number of firms struggled last year to get their marketing and information systems into compliance with the EU’s…
December 4, 2018 A New View of How Technology Will Change the Emerging Crytpo-Economy From the top of the world, it’s amazing what you can see. I recently had the opportunity to travel to…
October 8, 2018 Race to the Top – States Push to Broaden Breach Reporting Requirements Facebook just reported a massive data breach impacting over 50 million user accounts. And while most investment advisers are not…