Category Archives: Governance & Risk Management

Be Our Guest. The Fifth Annual Chicago Cyber Security Summit goes virtual as it connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. (more…)

The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) Cybersecurity Risk Alert reported increased ransomware attacks to SEC registrants (broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment companies) and potentially service providers – especially if they maintain client assets or registrant records. Companies should be aware of the potential risks they face. (more…)

One common theme that many of our articles have stressed is that people are the most susceptible to phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and other types of social media attacks in times of crisis. (more…)

Cyber-attacks happen. And they are happening more frequently and leaving more damage in their wake. What can you do to minimize that impact? (more…)

2020 has been quite a year so far, surfacing security vulnerabilities many were unprepared for. Cyber attackers took advantage of new remote working environments as well as our fear and uncertainty due to COVID-19, and hit our networks hard. (more…)

Seeking input on proposed changes to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s Safeguards Rule, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conducted (more…)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

has been vaguely requiring financial institutions to use “reasonable” security controls since 1999. That is about to change. (more…)

NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit: What is Reasonable Cyber Security?

The panel provided an overview of the risk-based analysis process that substantiates the method, and presented the legal, regulatory, and security best-practice history that informs the method. Each participant presented why the method successfully substantiates the term “reasonable” in their work and provided anecdotes that illustrate how it has been used on their experience. (more…)

HALOCK partner, Chris Cronin, will be participating as a panelist in the FTC Safeguards Rule Virtual Workshop.

The session, “The Costs and Benefits of Information Security Programs” (more…)

Prior to the pandemic outbreak, some 5.2 percent of U.S. employees worked remotely on a full time basis according to the U.S. Census. (more…)