April 20, 2021
Jurisdictions are creating privacy laws with competing interests of protecting consumer data without unnecessarily impeding companies’ ability to do business…
cybersecurity Tag
October 2, 2020
On July 21, 2020, The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) filed its first charges under its Cybersecurity…
August 21, 2020
A popular brand of VPN software recently had usernames, passwords, and IP addresses published on a dark web hacker forum…
August 13, 2020
A well-known New York-based financial institution is the most recent financial services firm to report a pair of data breaches…
August 12, 2020
The SEC’s “Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued an Alert today regarding “Select COVID-19 Compliance Risks for Investment…
August 5, 2020
As a cybersecurity consultant, I am often asked if some of the threats we industry practitioners talk about are overstated….
July 13, 2020
Financial firms have a bigger target on their backs at the moment, according to a new risk alert issued July…
June 24, 2020
FINRA recently deployed a new security feature for users of the Web CRD and IARD systems which is being rolled…
June 24, 2020
Financial institutions are down to one week left to update their privacy notices and privacy practices in order to comply…
April 2, 2020
Google Data Reveals 350% Surge In Phishing Websites During Coronavirus Pandemic More financial firms have shifted to a remote workforce…
January 28, 2020
In advance of National Data Privacy Day today, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)…
January 17, 2020
Now that we are in mid-January, a few things are evident. We have likely broken one or more New Year’s…