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Hackers Gonna Hack—FINRA’s Report on Cybersecurity Practices Assists Firms in Responding to Threats

On February 3, 2015 the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its long-awaited Report on Cybersecurity Practices, a broad overview of the state of play in the cybersecurity arena for broker-dealers. (Although FINRA has examined only broker-dealers, its Report is helpful for the entire securities industry.) The Report is the culmination of FINRA’s 2014 targeted...

Senate Holds Cybersecurity Information Sharing Hearing

On January 28, 2015, cybersecurity information sharing was the focus of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ first hearing in the 114th Congress. In the wake of high-profile cyber attacks on Sony, Target, and JPMorgan, the testifying industry executives and security experts urged Congress to pass an information sharing bill that will better detect and...

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