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SEC Updates Guidance on Cybersecurity

Emphasizing the critical importance of cybersecurity to registered investment companies (RICs), including insurance separate accounts and business development companies, and to investment advisers, the SEC’s Division of Investment Management issued new Cybersecurity Guidance on April 28, 2015. As RICs and advisers become ever more dependent on information technology to conduct their...

CFTC Holds Cybersecurity Roundtable March 18

As noted in our previous entry, staff from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held a Public Roundtable on Cybersecurity and System Safeguards Testing on March 18, 2015. The Roundtable, which included participants from the private sector and government agencies, could be a kick-off event for a larger CFTC initiative to address issues related to cybersecurity. The Roundtable...

NAIC Amps Up Cybersecurity Oversight

The NAIC has begun its efforts to amp up state insurance department oversight of cybersecurity practices with the release of two documents for public comment. The first, entitled Principles for Effective Cybersecurity Insurance Regulatory Guidance, is a document listing 18 principles for effective regulatory guidance regarding the protection of the insurance sector’s data security and...

Cybersecurity Issues Discussed at SEC Speaks

During the Practicing Law Institute’s annual SEC Speaks conference last week, the SEC reiterated its commitment to focusing on cyber security issues in the coming year.  SEC Commissioner Mary Jo White commended the examination staff of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) for their efforts to broaden the SEC’s reach, specifically referencing their involvement in...