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Securities Snapshot: 4th Quarter 2024 - 2025 Reporting Season – Key Considerations

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 1/6/2025

As we bid farewell to 2024, we welcome not only another year but also several new disclosure requirements. In this Snapshot, we summarize several developments and best practices for public companies to consider as the 2024...more

Preparing for the 2025 Public Company Reporting Season

Perkins Coie on 12/20/2024

In anticipation of the upcoming reporting season, this Update highlights some of the most significant rule changes, guidance, institutional investor areas of focus, and trends for public companies to consider while preparing...more

Twelve Planning Tips to Avoid Complications with the SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: Part III

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/23/2023

Key Point: The decision making processes to determine whether a cybersecurity incident is material or not, should include documenting the factors behind each determination and should be practiced before an incident occurs. ...more

SEC Adopts Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/7/2023

The SEC, by a 3-2 vote, has adopted new rules requiring companies to provide: ..current disclosure on Form 8-K within four business days of determining that a material cybersecurity incident has occurred; and ...more

SEC Adopts Final Cybersecurity Rules for Public Companies

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 8/2/2023

In a narrow 3-2 decision on July 26, the SEC adopted its final rule concerning cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure (the “Final Rule”). Below we highlight some of the principal changes...more

SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Final Rule

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 7/28/2023

On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules, rule amendments and form amendments to expand and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance,...more

The SEC's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules: Regulatory Delay Does Not Bless Standing By

BakerHostetler on 7/21/2023

The SEC’s Cybersecurity Proposals - The SEC has proposed four rules designed to address cybersecurity risk and management, including incident reporting by public companies....more

Client Alert: SEC’s Approach to Enforcement After Cyber Incidents: Key Takeaways for Public Companies from a Recent Speech

Jenner & Block on 7/11/2023

Last month, Gurbir Grewal, the Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, spoke at the Financial Times Cyber Resilience Summit. During the remarks, he outlined the importance of cybersecurity and signaled that the SEC is...more

SEC Delays Finalized Cyber Rules Until October 2023

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/20/2023

Based on updates to its rulemaking agenda that were released last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed approval of two cybersecurity rules until at least October 2023. Both proposed rules were...more

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to Require Expanded Cybersecurity Reporting

Genova Burns LLC on 2/9/2023

New cybersecurity rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) set to go into effect this spring will expand reporting requirements for publicly listed companies. The changes are designed to increase...more

SEC Proposed Cybersecurity Rules – What They Are and What Our Clients Should be Doing Now

Paul Hastings LLP on 10/11/2022

What are the new rules? Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published a new set of proposed cybersecurity disclosure rules for public companies. The proposed rules would significantly increase...more

The SEC's Message for Companies on Cybersecurity: ‘Do Better’

NAVEX on 4/5/2022

Corporate risk and compliance officers already labor under an influx of concerns related to cybersecurity, so you might have missed this latest news: the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new rules for more...more

SEC Proposes New Cyber Disclosure Rules for Public Companies

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/18/2022

On March 9, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed rules requiring publicly listed companies to make several specific disclosures related to cybersecurity incidents and the registrant's...more

SEC Proposes New, Formal Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/17/2022

On March 9, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a number of new rules to enhance public companies’ reporting of (i) cybersecurity incidents, (ii) their policies and procedures for identifying and...more

SEC Proposes Rules on Disclosure of Material Cyber Incidents and Cybersecurity Practices for Public Companies

BakerHostetler on 3/14/2022

On March 9, 2022, the SEC released proposed rules intended to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and cyber incident reporting by companies that are subject to the...more

SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule For Public Companies

Burr & Forman on 3/10/2022

Continuing its active regulatory agenda, the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2022, proposed new cybersecurity regulations for reporting public companies. Although couched as a series of “disclosure”...more

SEC Chair Gensler Remarks Indicate 2022 Action Expanding Cyber Requirements

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/31/2022

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler made remarks on Jan. 24, 2022, at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Annual Securities Regulation Institute regarding the SEC's work to improve...more

SEC Chair Gensler Wants Public Companies to Upgrade “Cyber Hygiene”

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/25/2022

Data Privacy Week kicked off with a major message for US publicly-traded companies: the Securities and Exchange Commission will be looking at cybersecurity. SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said in a speech to a virtual securities...more

US Securities and Exchange Commission Increases Focus on Cybersecurity

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 10/15/2021

This past summer’s string of cyber enforcement actions signals that cybersecurity has become a top priority for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). This focus is consistent with the SEC’s Division of...more

SEC Publishes Sample Climate Change Comment Letter

Goodwin on 9/24/2021

In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a sample comment letter on climate change disclosures; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is conducting a review of brokerage firm...more

SEC 21(a) Report Warns Public Company Email Scam Victims of Bigger Problems Than Stolen Money

Perkins Coie on 10/26/2018

Known by many names, including business email compromise fraud, CEO or CFO fraud, impersonation attacks, or “Man-in-the-Email” scams, cyber-related frauds involving spoofed or otherwise compromised business electronic...more

SEC Issues Report Warning about Fake Email Scams

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/19/2018

On October 16, 2018, the SEC issued a 21(a) report announcing that it had investigated whether certain public companies that were victims of oftentimes unsophisticated, cyber-related frauds had violated federal securities...more

Don’t Let Spoofing Fool You – SEC Says Internal Accounting Controls Should Address Cyber Threats

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/19/2018

On October 16, 2018, the SEC released an Investigative Report detailing recent email spoofing schemes that caused nine public companies to lose a total of nearly $100 million. Building on its February 2018 guidance about the...more

SEC Warns Companies of Potential Internal Accounting Control Violations with Business Email Compromise

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/19/2018

• The SEC issued guidance in the form of a rare “21(a) report” this week after investigating a series of email frauds impacting 9 unnamed companies. • These email-based frauds, referred to as “CEO scams” or “vendor scams,”...more

SEC Issues Disclosure Guidance as Part of Continued Focus on Cybersecurity

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 9/18/2018

As cybersecurity attacks have continued to gain prominence as a threat posing critical risk management and compliance challenges for financial institutions, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has emerged as an...more

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