Cybersecurity

Add two more signs that the government’s concerned about cybersecurity threats to financial services firms and that it wants you to be, too. Treasury’s FinCEN ...

To combat this threat our rulemaking on cybersecurity works to enhance the established cyber safeguards in place for many of our registrants.9 DCOs, DCMs, SEFs ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) is adopting final rules amending its current system safeguards rules for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, and ...

Derivatives clearing organizations will have to conduct at least annual penetration testing of their IT systems under the CFTC’s new final rule on DCO system ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission”) is adopting enhanced requirements for testing by a derivatives clearing organization (“DCO”) of its system safeguards, as well as ...

Derivatives clearing organizations will have to conduct at least annual penetration testing of their IT systems under the CFTC’s new final rule on DCO system ...

The risk of cyberattack probably represents the single greatest threat to the stability and integrity of our markets today. Instances of cyberattacks are all too ...

The risk of cyberattack probably represents the single greatest threat to the stability and integrity of our markets today. Instances of cyberattacks are all too ...

Cybersecurity is a top concern for American companies, especially financial firms. These rules are a good step forward in addressing these concerns.

I note approvingly that the Commission has alleviated some burdens from the proposed rulemaking such as increasing the frequency of key controls testing from ...