Compliance officers working with banks, insurers, and other financial service companies doing business in New York may soon find themselves with expanded jobs due to new proposed cyber-security regulations scheduled to take effect in that state in 2017. The proposed regulations were issued by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on September 13, 2016. While similar to existing federal data security regulations for financial institutions promulgated under the authority of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), New York’s proposed regulations contain potentially burdensome additional requirements that are not found in the GLBA-related federal regulations.
Impact of the regulations
