Financial Regulatory Forum

By Julie DiMauro and Stuart Gittleman

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - U.S.-based financial services institutions that don’t tell law enforcement agencies about having been victimized by cybercrime are compromising the nation’s security as well as that of their firms, a top Department of Justice official warned this week.

The remarks on Wednesday by Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general for the department’s criminal division, came as a financial industry group warned banks to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their public websites. (more…)

By Robert Kalb

NEW YORK, April 6 (Business Law Currents) – Ever-growing reliance on technology in customer interactions, proprietary data storage and even normal business operations is creating increased risk for companies working to ensure these systems remain uncompromised. As threats of cyber-attacks expand across industries, and given the potential material impact on operations, the security of these digital technologies from internal and external threats is vital.

Prior to newly released SEC guidance, there were no existing requirements to explicitly disclose these cyber-risks. With annual reports now being filed and sent to shareholders, companies have made varied levels of cyber-risk disclosure, and these disclosures may expand in the future with subsequent regulatory oversight. (more…)