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Managing a Cyberattack: An Interactive Simulation at the ACC Advanced Compliance Education Summit

It is 3:00 in the morning and your children are safe in bed, but the phone is ringing at the FBI! Sutherland’s Mark Thibodeaux; Cyndi Baily, Chief Compliance Officer at Alere Toxicology; Sarah Sandstorm, Contracts Counsel at KBM Group; and Special Agent Corey Harris from the FBI presented an interactive simulation of a cyber-attack at the ACC’s Advanced Compliance Education Summit...

SEC Releases Results of 2014 Cybersecurity Exam Sweep

On February 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Risk Alert prepared by its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) that summarizes the results of a sweep of more than 100 broker-dealers and investment advisers that OCIE undertook in 2014 in order to assess the level of cybersecurity preparedness of the examined firms. A list of questions that OCIE...