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Intercontinental Exchange to pay $10M SEC penalty over VPN breach
2024-05-22 17:20

The Intercontinental Exchange will pay a $10 million penalty to settle charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after failing to ensure its subsidiaries promptly reported an April 2021 VPN security breach. ICE is an American company listed on the Fortune 500 that owns and operates financial exchanges and clearing houses worldwide, including the New York Stock Exchange.

Confused by the SEC's IT security breach reporting rules? Read this
2024-05-22 16:30

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SEC requires financial institutions to notify customers of breaches within 30 days
2024-05-20 09:53

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P to modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers' nonpublic personal information by certain financial institutions."These amendments to Regulation S-P will make critical updates to a rule first adopted in 2000 and help protect the privacy of customers' financial data. The basic idea for covered firms is if you've got a breach, then you've got to notify. That's good for investors."

SEC: Financial orgs have 30 days to send data breach notifications
2024-05-17 16:13

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted amendments to Regulation S-P that require certain financial institutions to disclose data breach incidents to impacted individuals within 30 days of discovery. Notify affected individuals within 30 days if their sensitive information is, or is likely to be, accessed or used without authorization, detailing the incident, breached data, and protective measures taken.

Businesses foresee major impact from new SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules
2024-03-01 05:00

81% of respondents say the new SEC cybersecurity disclosure ruling will substantially impact their business. The SEC's new cybersecurity rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure took effect on Dec. 15, 2023.

How to make sense of the new SEC cyber risk disclosure rules
2024-02-20 06:00

SEC's new cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure rules, which require increased transparency around cybersecurity incidents, have been in effect since December 18, 2023. For businesses that already harbor concerns over their cybersecurity protections, visibility, and incident response preparedness, meeting the SEC's new incident reporting rules can be a serious challenge.

Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules
2024-02-01 17:15

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission's strict data breach reporting rule. The SEC's rule require public companies hit by cybercriminals to report the incident within four days.

The SEC Won't Let CISOs Be: Understanding New SaaS Cybersecurity Rules
2024-01-31 11:02

The SEC isn’t giving SaaS a free pass. Applicable public companies, known as “registrants,” are now subject to cyber incident disclosure and cybersecurity readiness requirements for data stored in...

SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming
2024-01-29 20:52

In a motion to dismiss [PDF] the SEC's lawsuit, the embattled developer described the fraud charges leveled against it, and its CISO Tim Brown, "As unfounded as they are unprecedented." In a statement to The Register, Serrin Turner, an attorney at Latham and Watkins, which is representing SolarWinds, railed against the SEC's charges.

SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack
2024-01-22 23:04

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed today that its X account was hacked through a SIM-swapping attack on the cell phone number associated with the account. Today, the SEC has confirmed that a cell phone account associated with the X account suffered a SIM-swapping attack.