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Proposed Amendments to NY Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Impose New Obligations on Large Entities, Boards of Directors and CISOs

Hunton Privacy

of the Proposed Amendments, Class A Companies must (1) ensure use of strong, unique passwords; (2) monitor privileged access activity; and (3) unless, a reasonable equivalent is approved in writing by the company’s CISO, implement both a password vaulting solution for privileged accounts and an automated method for blocking commonly used passwords.

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NYDFS proposes significant cybersecurity regulation amendments

Data Protection Report

The proposed changes mark a turn by NYDFS toward more specific, granular and prescriptive requirements notably with respect to governance, risk assessments and asset inventories (detailed below). Governance. NYDFS will release the official proposed changes at a later date, and they will be subject to the usual 60-day comment period.