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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

First Enforcement Action by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

On July 21, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) filed a “Statement of Charges and Notice of Hearing” (the “Charges”) against First American Title Insurance Company (the “Company”) alleging violations of...more

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New York Requests Preparedness Plans to Manage COVID-19 Risk

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On March 10, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services issued Insurance Circular Letter No. 5, titled “Guidance to Department of Financial Services Regulated Insurance Entities and Request for Assurance Relating to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New York State Department of Financial Services Extends Deadline for Certification of Compliance Filings

NYDFS Extends Deadline to File Certificate of Compliance Under Cybersecurity Regulation in Light of COVID-19 Crisis Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) extended...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

NYS DFS September 4, 2018 Cybersecurity Compliance Deadline

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 marked the New York State Department for Financial Service’s deadline for compliance with several sections of cybersecurity regulation 23 NYCRR 500 (the “Regulation”). The Regulation covers any...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New Guidance From SEC, New York’s DFS

Hoping to help covered entities, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released an update on cybersecurity while New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) published guidance for licensed virtual currency...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

DFS Provides Answers to Cybersecurity FAQs

Hoping to provide greater clarity to financial institutions subject to its new cybersecurity requirements, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) published a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document to assist...more

McCarter & English, LLP

New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Take Effect | Publications

PDF Version New cybersecurity-related regulations issued by New York state regulators took effect March 1, 2017. The rules, which directly impact all entities regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services (such...more

Bracewell LLP

New York DFS Finalized Cybersecurity Regulations Go Into Effect March 1, 2017

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On February 16, 2017, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced the final version of the “first-of-its-kind” cybersecurity regulations governing financial institutions, insurance companies, and other...more

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New York's Far-Reaching Cybersecurity Law Takes Effect March 1 - Are You Ready?

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New York’s Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity regulation became effective March 1. According to the press release issued with the regulation, the regulation is intended to require banks, insurance companies and...more

Locke Lord LLP

New York's Cybersecurity Requirements for DFS Licensees: A New Item at the Top of the To-Do List

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With a compliance date a few months away, licensees of the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) must start taking action in response to coming cybersecurity requirements, which will be more onerous and difficult...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York State Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation Poised to Reshape Existing Regulatory Landscape

In late December, New York State’s Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) released its revised proposed cybersecurity regulation (the “DFS Rule”). While the revisions pare back some of the DFS Rule’s original requirements...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

New York State Department of Financial Services Modifies Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations and Pushes Implementation Date Back to...

On Dec. 28, 2016, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published a revised version of its “Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies” (the “Regulations”). The revised Regulations...more

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Financial Industry Groups Criticize New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Proposal

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As we previously reported, in September 2016 the New York Department of Financial Services (the “DFS”) proposed a regulation that would require banks, insurance companies and other financial services institutions regulated by...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New York Cybersecurity Regulation Delayed

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) will delay the effective date of their proposed cybersecurity regulation until March 1, 2017. A new draft of the proposed regulation will be published on December 28,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

NY Financial Services Companies’ 2017 Resolution: Cybersecurity

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The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) made headlines back in late September with a “first-in-the-nation” piece of legislation aimed at mandating specific cybersecurity protocols for banks, insurance...more

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Cybersecurity Requirements Proposed for New York Financial Companies

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The New York Department of Financial Services has proposed new cybersecurity regulations “designed to promote the protection of customer information as well as the information technology systems of regulated entities...more

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New York State Department of Financial Services Proposes Far-Reaching Cybersecurity Rules

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The New York State Department of Financial Services (the DFS) has issued a proposed regulation that would impose cybersecurity-related requirements on entities it supervises. In some cases, these requirements would go beyond...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New York's DFS Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations for Financial Institutions

New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) has a proposed broad-reaching cybersecurity regulation that would impose new corporate governance, risk management and vendor management requirements on banks and other...more

Locke Lord LLP

New York DFS Promulgates Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services

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The New York State Department of Financial Services promulgated proposed cyber security requirements to respond to “the ever-growing threat posed to information and financial systems by nation-states, terrorist organizations...more

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New York DFS Announces New Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations

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On September 13, 2016, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) released proposed cybersecurity regulations for financial institutions.1 When the regulations become effective, they will make New York the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York State Department of Financial Services Proposes Cybersecurity Regulations for Financial Services Companies

If the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) has its way, come January 1, 2017, financial services companies that require a form of authorization to operate under the banking, insurance, or financial...more

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New York Raises the Bar – Will Other States Follow?

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On September 13, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) proposed new first-in-the-nation cybersecurity regulations (Regulations) that would require banks and other financial institutions to adopt minimum...more

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