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Warning: Cyber criminals are coming for your client’s retirement information

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/5/2025

As cyberattacks and cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, safeguarding employee benefit plans, including health and welfare plans, is crucial. The Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S....more

2024 Wrap-Up of the Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/2/2025

As the year comes to a close here are some of the highlights from the Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report with our most popular topics and posts from 2024. Expanding State Privacy Laws- This year saw a...more

Cybersecurity Considerations for Employers Sponsoring ERISA Plans

Littler on 11/13/2024

In its most recent step to combat cybersecurity risks to employee benefit plans, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) clarified on September 6, 2024, that its guidance on cybersecurity applies to health and welfare plans as...more

Regulatory Roundup for July 2024

SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³) on 7/31/2024

SEC Loses in ALJ Case, DOL’s Latest Fiduciary Rule Put on Hold, and SEC Reconsiders AI and Custody Rule Proposals - Welcome to our July Regulatory Roundup, where we provide a quick look at the latest regulatory developments....more

Top 10 ESG Developments for 2023

ArentFox Schiff on 12/11/2023

2023 saw terms like “ESG,” “greenwashing,” and “circular economy” come into common use. We also saw a tsunami of other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related developments at the international, federal, and state...more

POTUS Issues Expansive Executive Order on AI, Calling for All Hands On Deck

ArentFox Schiff on 11/8/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an expansive Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to establish standards for AI technology to...more

Broker Dealer Regulatory Digest - November 2023

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/30/2023

Editor's Note - The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency,...more

[Event] RIA Compliance and Legal Strategies Conference - June 1st, Wayne, PA

Stark & Stark on 2/28/2023

The RIA Compliance and Legal Strategies Conference is an essential event for registered investment advisors to gain a valuable understanding of current regulatory and compliance-related issues. Attendees will earn 5 CE...more

Reducing Regulatory Exposure: The Priceless Cyber Question

StoneTurn on 9/22/2022

Given recent regulatory activity and sentiments, companies must take an active role in maturing their cybersecurity programs so that they robustly counter potential risk. Current and future regulator activity, rulemaking, and...more

The Department of Labor Issues its First Cybersecurity Guidance for Plan Sponsors, Fiduciaries and Service Providers

King & Spalding on 6/23/2021

It’s been, as the song goes, a long, long time coming. In April, the Department of Labor issued its first ever formal cybersecurity guidance for retirement plan sponsors and retirement plan fiduciaries, and for the service...more

DOL Cybersecurity Guidance: Managing Risks to Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans

Fisher Phillips on 6/2/2021

The Government Accountability Office recently urged the U.S. Department of Labor to release guidance on cybersecurity matters in an effort to mitigate risks to 401(k) and other retirement plans. The GAO noted that there were...more

DOL Issues Cybersecurity Guidance for Plan Fiduciaries

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 5/21/2021

In April, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), for the first time, issued cybersecurity guidance that was focused on retirement plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) but could be...more

Department of Labor Announces Cybersecurity Guidance for ERISA Retirement Plans

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/28/2021

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its first cybersecurity guidance for retirement plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of...more

Department of Labor Issues Cybersecurity Guidelines

Alston & Bird on 4/22/2021

On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor announced new cybersecurity guidance for plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, record-keepers, and plan participants. The guidance is specifically “directed at plan sponsors and...more

DOL Issues Cybersecurity Guidance For Employee Benefit Plans

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 4/21/2021

On Thursday April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor announced guidance for plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, record keepers and plan participants on best practices for maintaining cybersecurity. This is the first time the...more

Cybersecurity Guidance For Fiduciaries

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 4/19/2021

As of 2018, the DOL estimates that there are 34 million defined benefit (DB) plan participants in private pension plans and 106 million defined contribution (DC) plan participants with combined assets of $9.3 trillion....more

ERISA Advisory Council Issues 2016 Report on Benefit Plan Cybersecurity

McGuireWoods LLP on 2/6/2017

“Cyber threats cannot be eliminated but they can be managed. Cyber experts say that it is not a question of if you will have a cyber-attack, rather it is a question of when. The next question is what you are going to do about...more

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