Newly Proposed SEC Cybersecurity Risk Management and Governance Rules and Amendments for Public Companies

On March 9, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new cybersecurity rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. The text of the proposed rules is available here. The SEC proposal would continue to ratchet up cybersecurity as an increasingly critical dimension of corporate governance.

Key takeaways from the SEC’s release include the following: (more…)