SEC Updates Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Guidance for Registered Firms

On April 16, 2019, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a risk alert, “Investment Adviser and Broker-Dealer Compliance Issues Relating to Regulation S-P – Privacy Notices and Safeguard Policies,” highlighting its data privacy and cybersecurity observations from recent examinations of registered firms. Regulation S-P By way of background, Regulation S-P is the SEC’s data privacy regulation that implemented the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.…