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CFTC Holds Cybersecurity Roundtable March 18

As noted in our previous entry, staff from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held a Public Roundtable on Cybersecurity and System Safeguards Testing on March 18, 2015. The Roundtable, which included participants from the private sector and government agencies, could be a kick-off event for a larger CFTC initiative to address issues related to cybersecurity. The Roundtable...

SIFMA Issues Cybersecurity Guidance

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) recently released its Small Firms Cybersecurity Guidance to help securities firms implement the basics of a good cybersecurity program. (Despite its name, SIFMA’s Small Firms Cybersecurity Guidance has tips that securities firms of all sizes could benefit from.) SIFMA’s Guidance includes eight basic cybersecurity “action...