The Security Industry Association (“SIA”) announced the revised SIA Privacy Framework on April 1, 2014. Building on the initial framework released in 2010, the revised SIA Privacy Framework is designed to provide guidance to companies seeking to establish adequate privacy policies to protect personally identifiable information and other sensitive data. This release outlines a core […]
Financial Regulators Release Statements on Cyber-Attacks
On April 2, 2014, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”) issued a press release, alerting that FFIEC members are issuing joint statements on the risks associated with cyber-attacks on Automated Teller Machine (“ATM”) and card authorization systems and the continued distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attacks on websites. These joint statements highlight the risks […]