The Morning Leverage: SEC Turns Its Attention to PE’s Cybersecurity Policies

From this morning’s LBO Wire:
Private equity firms may want to beef up their cybersecurity policies, prior to the next wave of investment advisor examinations from the Securities and Exchange Commission. As Dawn Lim reports in this morning’s LBO Wire, the SEC plans to focus more attention on the policies and procedures that private equity firms and other registered investment advisors put in place to protect the sensitive data they manage.

Cybersecurity is one of a number of priorities that the SEC has indicated for the coming year, along with “pay-to-play and certain other key risk areas related to advisers to public pensions,” Ms. Lim reports. For the full article click here 

from cyber security caucus http://ift.tt/1P7IsIj
via IFTTT