Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reemphasized just how serious companies must be about maintaining a vigilant cybersecurity posture and procedures to report cyber incidents in a timely manner....more
6/21/2024
/ Corporate Governance ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Form 8-K ,
Materiality ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation SCI ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Settlement
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
11/9/2018
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Electronic Communications ,
Internal Controls ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Security and Privacy Controls ,
Spoofing
Not long ago I wrote about a speech by Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, at the Directors Forum 2016 in San Diego. In his speech, Mr. Ceresney made a point of noting the SEC’s continuing...more
Cyberattacks against the country’s largest companies tend to garner the most press coverage and generate the most cybersecurity anxiety. For example, such high profile companies as eBay, JP Morgan, Home Depot and Target are...more