Several companies in the retail industry are banding together to strengthen their defenses against hackers and data breaches. The industry initiative, known as the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), is an independent organization through which more than 50 of the nation’s largest retailers, federal law enforcement, and government agencies can share cyber-threat information to […]
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Posted inEthics & Culture
Facebook’s Big Data Fail Spurs Call for More Ethics
A recent flap over a controversial use of Big Data analyzation techniques by Facebook has once again spurred calls for the more ethical use of data-gathering tools by companies. Earlier this month, Facebook drew fire for an “experiment” that studied how users’ news feeds could be manipulated to affect their moods. The so-called “emotional contagion […]
Posted inEthics & Culture
Facebook’s Big Data Fail Spurs Call for More Ethics
A recent flap over a controversial use of Big Data analyzation techniques by Facebook has once again spurred calls for the more ethical use of data-gathering tools by companies. Earlier this month, Facebook drew fire for an “experiment” that studied how users’ news feeds could be manipulated to affect their moods. The so-called “emotional contagion […]
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Retail Companies Collaborate to Defend Against Data Breaches
Several companies in the retail industry are banding together to strengthen their defenses against hackers and data breaches. The industry initiative, known as the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), is an independent organization through which more than 50 of the nation’s largest retailers, federal law enforcement, and government agencies can share cyber-threat information to […]
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Legislation Would Ease SEC Demands on Investor Road Shows
Members of Congress are looking to tweak rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission last year that allow the advertising and marketing of private securities offerings. Senate Bill 2498, Helping Angels Lead our Startups Act, also known as the HALOS Act, would ease requirements and restrictions on “demo days” and traveling road shows where […]
Posted inInternal Controls
States Making Tough New Breach Notification Demands
Florida put a tough new cyber-breach notification law into effect at the start of the month, replacing its older statute with more stringent demands upon any company that so much as interacts with consumers there. The state is hardly alone. Lacking a comprehensive federal law to guide the notification process, 47 states, the District of […]
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States Making Tough New Breach Notification Demands
Florida put a tough new cyber-breach notification law into effect at the start of the month, replacing its older statute with more stringent demands upon any company that so much as interacts with consumers there. The state is hardly alone. Lacking a comprehensive federal law to guide the notification process, 47 states, the District of […]
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When Hackers Attack Hedge Funds
News began to spread last month about an extraordinary cyber attack on a large hedge fund that struck at the firm’s high-speed trading apparatus. The assault appeared to take the hacking of financial firms to a whole new level. According to an executive at BAE Systems, the firm was hired to help the hedge fund […]
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Managing Cyber-Security Risk: Who Cares, and Who Doesn’t
I’m glad that SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar raised the alarm about cyber-security risks last week. The question is whether anyone will hear it, and I fear the answer is no. In some ways Aguilar’s speech was important. He is an unofficial stalking horse for policy at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where positions he stakes […]
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Managing Cyber-Security Risk: Who Cares, and Who Doesn’t
I’m glad that SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar raised the alarm about cyber-security risks last week. The question is whether anyone will hear it, and I fear the answer is no. In some ways Aguilar’s speech was important. He is an unofficial stalking horse for policy at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where positions he stakes […]
