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Looking Back at Fall 2023 PCCE Events: Conference on Security, Privacy, and Consumer Protection

As we prepare for a full schedule of events in 2024, the NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is taking a moment to reflect on our busy Fall 2023 program. In this post, we review our November 17, 2023 full day conference on Security, Privacy, and Consumer Protection.

Photo of conference

(©Hollenshead: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau)

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Cybersecurity Experts React to NYDFS’s Amendments to its Cybersecurity Rules

Editor’s Note: The NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is following the New York State Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) recently announced amendments to its Part 500 Cybersecurity Regulations. In this post, cybersecurity experts offer their insight on the final amendments and the potential implications they have for corporate cybersecurity programs.

Photos of the authors

Top left to right: Johanna Skrzypczyk, Avi Gesser, Justin Herring, Kathleen McGee, and Edward Stroz.
Bottom left to right: Kellen Dwyer, Rebecca Hughes Parker, Elizabeth Ferrick, Grant Ankrom, and Alex Southwell. (Photos courtesy of the authors)

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The Biden Administration Signals New Direction for Cybersecurity

by Alexander Southwell, Stephenie Gosnell Handler, and Eric Hornbeck

From left to right: Alexander Southwell, Stephenie Gosnell Handler, and Eric Hornbeck (photos courtesy of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP)

The Biden administration has been steadily evolving its views of national security risks and priorities—and what measures the executive branch will take to mitigate those risks.  Last fall’s National Security Strategy called out critical technology and cybersecurity as key national security concerns.  This focus sharpened with the release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy last month.  And, most recently, the administration has submitted a $3.1 billion budget request for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a 22 percent increase from its request last year, to implement that strategy and fund other initiatives.  While strategy is not policy, and budget proposals are not appropriations, these are strong signals of the shifting winds of the administration regarding the tools and incentives the administration will deploy to mitigate cybersecurity risks.

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