Major Bank Regulators Propose Expanded Cybersecurity Regulations

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On October 19, 2016, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (the “agencies”) issued a joint advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANOPR), titled “Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards,” that would constitute a marked expansion of the agencies’ cybersecurity regulations. The proposed rules, which would apply a robust set of cyber risk management standards to large jurisdictional entities, are premised on the notion that “the interconnectedness of the U.S. financial system” means that “a cyber incident or failure at one interconnected entity may not only impact the safety and soundness of the entity, but also other financial entities with potentially systemic consequences.”

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