Key cyber security developments that will shape policy in 2016

Last year was a busy one for cyber security policy and lawmaking.

The developments from 2015 will impact trends this year and well beyond.

Co-authors from the Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP law firm highlighted important updates from 2015 and trends to follow in 2016 including:

• Federal and state regulators stressing the need for companies and organizations to have adequate protections
• against — and responses to — data breaches.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management issuing guidelines to investment
• companies and advisors, highlighting cyber security as an “important issue.”
• The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling giving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the authority to regulate
• a company’s data security practices.
• And a landmark decision issued by the European Court of Justice — the European Union’s version of the Supreme
• Court — that struck down the “Safe Harbor” data-transfer agreement between the EU and the U.S.

Read about all of the key cyber security developments here.