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NYDFS releases major update to Part 500 cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies

Data Protection Report

On November 1, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) released the finalized amendments of Part 500 of its cybersecurity regulations. Some requirements also apply specifically to larger covered entities falling under the “Class A companies” category.

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CHINA: New draft proposes more stringent requirements for processing data in the financial services industry

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge and Venus Cheung On July 24, 2023, the People’s Bank of China (“ PBOC ”) released the Measures for the Management of Data Security in the Business Areas Falling into PBOC’s Jurisdiction (Draft for Comment) (“ Draft Measures” ) for public consultation, which closes on August 24, 2023.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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$8 million penalty to NYDFS – and another case of over-retention

Data Protection Report

On January 3, 2024, the New York Department of Financial Services announced a consent order with GGT, where GGT agreed to pay NYDFS $8 million and to surrender its BitLicense (for cryptocurrency trading), due to alleged violations of NYDFS’ cybersecurity and its virtual currency regulations.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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New York’s Breach Law Amendments and New Security Requirements

Data Protection Report

Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. Readers may recall that New York’s security breach notification law (N.Y.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The PIPL also anticipates that a new publicly-available entity list may be published, listings foreign organisations to whom local China organisations may not transfer personal information, where such transfer may harm national security or public interest. This aligns with a similar provision in the new Data Security Law.