Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a new $113m contract to deliver modernized cyber-defense operations to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). With this new 10-year contract, the Virginia-based firm will become the SEC’s leading provider of cybersecurity services. The contract was awarded on December 12, 2019, but was kept under wraps until yesterday....Read More

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a 10-page document detailing cybersecurity practices observed to be in use in the financial industry. The observations were gathered by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections (OCIE) and are based on thousands of examinations of broker-dealers, investment advisers, clearing agencies, national securities exchanges, and other SEC registrants. OCIE...Read More