Treasury Department Issues Cybersecurity Checklist for Financial Institutions: What Might Apply to Your Financial Services Company?
By: Mark A. Rush, Thomas C. Ryan, Joseph A. Valenti, Samuel P. Reger
On November 17, 2015, Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin devoted her remarks at the Clearing House Annual Conference to financial sector cybersecurity. She concluded with a list of recommendations for handling cybersecurity at financial institutions. In light of them, prudent in-house counsel, compliance officers, and security personnel may want to review their company’s cybersecurity plan to determine which of the deputy secretary’s recommendations are applicable. This Alert recounts Deputy Secretary Raskin’s “to-do list” and provides step-by-step suggestions regarding cybersecurity response plans in light of it.
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