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FBI Makes Broker-dealers an Offer They Can’t Refuse: Talk to Us About Cybersecurity

Speaking last week at FINRA’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., Donald Good, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, discussed steps the FBI is taking to help members of the securities industry deal with cyber-threats, as well as steps the FBI hopes firms will take in response.  For example, as the Department of Justice recently suggested, Good urged members of...

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...