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SEC Tightens Cybersecurity Requirements with Regulation S-P Amendments

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/14/2024

Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top “The basic idea for covered firms is if you’ve got a breach, then you’ve got to notify. That’s good for investors.” Those were among the remarks that U.S. Securities and...more

Chief Information Security Officers and cyber whistleblowing: considerations for PE firms

A&O Shearman on 4/3/2024

Managing these risks at a single company should be straightforward. Executives and CISOs may be personally held accountable for cyber failings, negligence, breaches, and inadequate disclosure around cyber vulnerabilities and...more

Legal Risk Management: 5 Ways to Proactively Mitigate Risk

Reveal on 8/11/2023

Corporations must innovate and set themselves apart from their competition to achieve long-term success, but they cannot act with reckless abandon in doing so. Rather, they must strategically plan their moves to proactively...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - March 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/16/2023

Circuits Split Over Whether Targeting Is Necessary for Seller Liability - Key Points - - While courts have long held that solicitations must be tailored to a particular audience to precipitate statutory seller liability,...more

The SEC’s Fast-Approaching Cybersecurity Overhaul for Public Companies and Regulated Entities

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 2/6/2023

The SEC has nearly doubled the size of its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit and has aggressively pursued cyber-related enforcement actions against public companies and regulated entities. In a few months the SEC will finalize...more

Government Enforcement and Investigations Year-In-Review: The Administration Has Moved Its Pieces into Place

Bracewell LLP on 12/9/2021

On Monday, President Biden released the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption, which details how the United States will work “domestically and internationally, with governmental and non-governmental partners, to...more

Fool Me Twice…SEC’s latest Cyber-Fraud ROI Indicates Future Enforcement Against Hacker Victims

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/29/2018

In the aftermath of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) latest Report of Investigation (“Report”) regarding cyberattacks via “spoofed or manipulated electronic communications,” companies should prepare to adjust...more

SEC Cautions Issuers to Consider Cyber Threats When Devising and Maintaining Internal Accounting Controls

WilmerHale on 10/18/2018

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission released an investigative report regarding its investigation into whether nine public companies that were victims of cyber-related frauds violated federal securities laws by...more

SEC Focuses on Initial Coin Offerings: Tokens May Be Securities Under Federal Securities Laws

Dechert LLP on 9/13/2017

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently taken several actions to make clear that it is focused on and actively monitoring the rapidly growing market for so-called “token sales” or “initial coin...more

Cybersecurity: SEC Is Starting to Scrutinize Registrants’ Practices

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation on 4/23/2014

The SEC plans to examine the cybersecurity practices of over 50 registered broker-dealers and investment advisers. The SEC announced its plan in an April 15, 2014 Risk Alert, which closely follows the March 26 Cybersecurity...more

Target, University of Maryland Testify on Data Breaches; Congress, FTC and SEC Continue Inquiries

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/27/2014

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing entitled “Protecting Personal Consumer Information from Cyber Attacks and Data Breaches” and heard testimony from...more

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