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Electronic Contracts and Electronic Signatures Under E-Sign and UETA

Miles Mediation & Arbitration on 3/21/2025

The digital revolution has fundamentally changed the way businesses and individuals conduct transactions. Electronic contracts and electronic signatures have become vital to modern commerce, enabling efficiency and...more

Why Depository Institutions, with or Without Affiliated Securities Firms, can and should Manage Employee Use of Personal Devices...

WilmerHale on 1/22/2025

The purpose of this paper is to show how the failure to monitor for and prevent off-channel communications poses risk to traditional depository institutions that are not subject to the jurisdiction of securities-law...more

Business Email Compromise Scams: What They Are, and How to Avoid Them

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/25/2024

In an increasingly digital world, the rise in cybercrime involving email scams has become a significant threat to individuals and organizations alike. These sophisticated attacks exploit human psychology and technological...more

Regulatory Roundup for May 2024

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³) on 5/30/2024

SEC DROPS NEW REQUIREMENT FOR INCIDENT RESPONSE PROGRAMS, PROPOSAL FOR RIAS TO ADOPT CIP, SEC EXAMS SHARES MARKETING RULE FAILURES, RIA SLAMMED FOR FAILING TO RETAIN TEXTS, AND SEC WINS ON SHADOW TRADING THEORY - Welcome to...more

Business Email Compromise: The Most Prevalent – and Preventable – Cyber Risk

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/25/2024

Ransomware attacks that shut business down to zero and data breaches that disclose the personal information of customers, vendors and employees justifiably strike fear in the hearts of executives everywhere. Organizations can...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

ABA Ethics Committee Weighs in on Practicing Law Virtually

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 3/26/2021

In Formal Opinion 498, issued on March 10, 2021, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has provided some guidance on the ethical obligations triggered when a lawyer...more

How to Be Ready for Coronavirus-Related Cybersecurity Challenges

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/12/2020

The novel coronavirus outbreak is creating electronic communication and data privacy concerns on a number of fronts. One immediate effect is a significant increase in phishing scams, used by threat actors to launch malware...more

Cyberfraud Victims May Have Violated SEC Internal Control Requirements: Adding Insult to Injury

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 11/9/2018

Just when you thought the hazards of cyberfraud couldn’t get worse, the SEC recently issued a Report of Investigation (more on that later) stating that nine recent corporate victims of cyberfraud may have compounded their...more

Test Your Employees with Internal Phishing Campaigns

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/9/2018

Phishing campaigns continue to be one of the most successful ways for malicious intruders to access company information, including personal information of employees and customers. Phishing emails continue to get more and more...more

Colorado Division of Securities Publishes Final Cybersecurity Rules

Ballard Spahr LLP on 5/23/2017

The Colorado Division of Securities (Division) has published final cybersecurity rules applicable to broker-dealers and investment advisers. The Colorado Attorney General's office has 20 days to write an opinion on the rules,...more

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