Last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 on a series of rules relating to cybersecurity disclosures, including a new requirement for public companies to publicly disclose “significant impacts” of cyber-attacks within four days. Public companies would be well-served to review the new requirements immediately to form a plan of action to address the newly approved rules.Continue Reading SEC Approves Transformative Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements
Here are six lessons you can start using today from the SEC’s Investment Management Division guidance on protecting confidential information from cybersecurity risks.
Background
The staff of the Investment Management Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“Staff”) recently issued guidance to both registered investment companies (“funds”) and registered investment advisers (“advisers”) regarding the ever present cybersecurity risks these entities face and measures they might adopt to protect the confidential and sensitive information that they collect, maintain, transfer, and
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