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Cyber Experts React to Court Decision in the SEC’s SolarWinds Enforcement Action

Editor’s Note: PCCE has been watching the developments in the SEC’s enforcement action against SolarWinds and its CISO over allegedly misleading disclosures and controls failures related to the compromise of its Orion product by putative Russian hackers. In this post, cybersecurity experts and lawyers discuss the recent decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to dismiss most of the SEC’s claims in the case.

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Top left to right: Randal Milch, Judy Titera, James Haldin, and Alan Wilson. Bottom left to right: Matthew Beville, Elizabeth Roper, and Jerome Tomas. (Photos courtesy of authors)

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Stephanie Avakian Joins PCCE’s Board of Advisors

The NYU School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is delighted to announce that Stephanie Avakian, a highly-experienced white collar defense attorney and former director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has joined PCCE’s Board of Advisors.

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Photo courtesy of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

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Looking Back at Fall 2023 PCCE Events: SEC Enforcement Policy Roundtable

As we begin to prepare for a full schedule of events in 2024, starting with an event on Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy for Export Controls Violations on January 16, 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. First up: our September 6, 2023 Roundtable on SEC enforcement policy.

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SEC Director of Enforcement Gurbir Grewal (©Hollenshead: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau)

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