2020 was a year of exceptional change for employers and their staff. As the pandemic unfolded, businesses navigated their way through adjusting to a remote workforce to furloughing to creating COVID-secure workplaces and...more
1/29/2021
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to guide regulated firms on its expectations of their cyber resiliency. In 2018, the FCA warned regulated firms of the risks of outdated IT systems and the lack of effective cyber...more
In a paper published last month,[i] the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) set out various cybersecurity insights gleaned from the work of cyber coordination groups (“CCGs”) the regulator established in 2017. The...more
4/4/2019
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The European Parliament gave final approval to the Network and Information Security Directive (“Directive”), the first-ever EU-wide cybersecurity standards, on July 6, 2016. The Directive seeks to improve the cybersecurity...more
On July 6, 2016, after more than three years of debate, the European Parliament gave final approval to the Network and Information Security Directive. It establishes the first set of fundamental cybersecurity and breach...more