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SEC Cybersecurity Update: Chair Gensler Offers Insight into Upcoming Regulation

by Avi GesserCharu Chandrasekhar, Christopher Ford, HJ Brehmerand Matthew Rametta

On January 24, 2022, SEC Chair Gary Gensler gave a speech on cybersecurity rulemaking to the Annual Securities Regulation Institute, outlining a number of key points he expects the SEC will consider in 2022 and emphasizing the SEC’s “key role” on the federal government’s “Team Cyber.”  A number of these proposed changes – including broadening the scope of existing SEC regulations, enhancing SEC requirements for cyber hygiene, and increasing attention to public company disclosures – were among the trends that members of the Debevoise Data Strategy & Security and White Collar & Regulatory Defense practice groups discussed during a November 2021 webcast on the SEC’s Cybersecurity Year in Review, as well as in our prior Data Blog posts (here and here).

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