“Imagine that the FBI and DHS have arrived at your company to inform you of a potential cyber threat. Your public company disclosure obligations may not be the first thing on your mind but such issues will quickly emerge,” write Jenner & Block’s Mary Ellen Callahan, CIPP/US, and Elaine Wolff. Freshly off a daylong roundtable held by the SEC, Callahan and Wolff, in this post for Privacy Perspectives, analyze a number of key cybersecurity issues debated by “an impressive array of government and industry representatives.” Key issues include “how to protect classified and sensitive information while providing investors” with the data they need; effective information-sharing between the private sector and government, and whether there should be a unique disclosure regime around cybersecurity.
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