The SEC’s new Risk Alert provides valuable insight as to what the OCIE wants to see broker dealers and investment advisers accomplish with their privacy notices and their cybersecurity policies and procedures. The SEC wants this written documentation to be comprehensive, to accurately reflect the registrant’s practices, and to be implemented effectively throughout their business. Broker dealers and investment advisers can, and should, use this Risk Alert to benchmark their own specific practices against the SEC’s expectations.
Read our client alert.