Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Heather Bearfield | Marcum LLP

Editor: Please tell us about your professional background. Bearfield: I started my career in the IT group at a Big 4 firm where I focused mainly on financial services firms with respect to compliance and internal controls. I then transitioned to Bank of America right around the time it...

Cybersecurity

Ariel Yehezkel, Thomas Michael | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

When the President of the United States calls something “one of the gravest national security dangers that the United States faces,” it seems worthwhile to pay attention. The President’s statement, on February 12, 2014, was not referring to the dangers of war or terrorism, but...

Cybersecurity

Kenneth L. Greenberg | Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that cybersecurity will be an area of regulatory focus during 2014. The National Exam Program (NEP) run by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) has included “information security” as an...