Podcast: Private Fund Regulatory Update – Network and Cloud Storage
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks
The SEC’s amended Regulation S-P, adopted last year, will soon enhance data privacy protections for broker-dealers, investment companies, registered investment advisors, and transfer agents. The updated rule requires these...more
On May 16, 2024, the SEC breathed new life into its decades-old Regulation S-P, which requires firms to adopt policies and procedures for the protection of customer information and records. The amended rule balloons the...more
Covered institutions will need to review their cybersecurity and incident response policies and procedures ahead of the applicable compliance deadline. ...more
On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Regulation S-P to “modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers’ nonpublic personal information by certain...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has amended its privacy rule – Regulation S-P – to establish a federal minimum standard for covered institutions to notify affected individuals of a data breach....more
On May 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to Regulation S-P, which covers broker-dealers, registered investment advisors (RIAs), and investment companies (funds). These entities are now required to...more
On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued three releases proposing (i) amendments to Regulation S-P (“Regulation S-P Proposal”)1, (ii) amendments to Regulation SCI (“Regulation SCI Proposal”)2,...more
The SEC continued its recent onslaught of proposed cybersecurity rules in mid-March with three new proposals covering a litany of entities, including investment advisers, broker-dealers, investment companies, clearing...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed amendments to Regulation S-P (the “Proposal”) that would require registered investment advisers (“RIAs”), broker-dealers (“BDs”), investment companies...more
In its efforts to address cybersecurity risks, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) continues to propose rules on cybersecurity. Most recently, on March 15, 2023, the SEC announced its proposal of three...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is implementing a campaign to overhaul the agency’s expectations around cybersecurity and cyber incident reporting for the financial services industry and corporate America...more
A significant expansion of rules relating to cybersecurity risks - particularly for the financial sector - is under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In public remarks last week, SEC Chair...more
As every investment adviser, broker-dealer, and fund (and their lawyer) knows, noncompliance with Regulation S-P, the SEC’s primary rule on privacy notices and safeguard policies, can land a registrant in hot and expensive...more
On August 7, 2017, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a summary of its observations (the report) from cybersecurity examinations of 75...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently settled its first cybersecurity-related enforcement action against a Missouri based registered investment adviser, R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (the ...more