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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.

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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Biden Administration Aims to Shift Liability for Cyberattacks to Software Developers

by Kathleen McGee, Ken Fishkin, and Mikayla Berliner

From left to right: Kathleen McGee, Ken Fishkin, and Mikayla Berliner (photos courtesy of Lowenstein Sandler LLP)

In response to major cyber-related attacks caused by software security flaws, such as the SolarWinds breach, the Biden administration is gearing up to crack down on software providers that distribute products with security flaws that make customers vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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White Collar Defense Attorneys React to DOJ and SEC Enforcement Actions for Misuse of 10b5-1 Plans

Editor’s Note: Recently, both the DOJ and the SEC brought, for the first time ever, criminal and civil insider trading charges against a corporate executive for his alleged fraudulent misuse of a 10b5-1 trading plan, which typically allows corporate insiders to pre-schedule sales of company shares to avoid accusations of insider trading. In this post, several former federal prosecutors and white collar defense attorneys provide their reactions to this case and its implications for future insider trading cases.

Top row from left to right: Brian Jacobs, Gina Parlovecchio, Rachel Maimin, and Kathleen McGee.
Bottom row from left to right: Robert Johnston, Marc Rein, and Katherine Goldstein. (photos courtesy of authors’ respective firms)

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