Bloomberg: SEC Probes Threat from Cyber Attacks Against Wall Street

March 27, 2014

Bloomberg has published an article about the SEC Cybersecurity Roundtable which took place on March 26, 2014 in Washington, DC. Trillium’s Director of Shareholder Advocacy, Jonas Kron, was a panelist at the roundtable. Dave Michaels and Chris Strohm write: “The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the exposure of stock exchanges, brokerages and other Wall Street firms to cyber-attacks that have been called a threat to financial stability… [The] event was spurred by SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, who today called for the agency to establish a cybersecurity task force… Companies’ public reports so far about cyber-attacks have mostly …

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Trillium’s Jonas Kron to be Panelist at SEC Cybersecurity Roundtable

March 25, 2014

March 25, 2014: Jonas Kron, Trillium’s Director of Shareholder Advocacy, will be a panelist at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s March 26th roundtable on the issues and challenges cybersecurity presents for market participants and public companies. The roundtable will be divided into four panels. Participants on the first panel will discuss the cybersecurity landscape. Jonas will be a member of the second panel which will discuss cybersecurity disclosure issues faced by public companies. Participants on the third panel will discuss the cybersecurity issues faced by exchanges and other key market systems. On the final panel, participants will discuss how broker-dealers, …

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Privacy and Data Security – eBay (2013)

November 26, 2012

Whereas, Digital technologies and commerce have created extraordinary business opportunities for eBAY; they may also present serious risks to privacy and data security. Breaches of privacy and data security are a growing threat which can result from company negligence or external attacks. Cyber attacks on U.S. computer networks rose 17-fold from 2009 to 2011, according to the U.S. National Security Agency, with many companies not even realizing they were attacked. According to a 2011 Ponemon Institute study, the per capita cost of a data breach was $194, with an average incident cost of $5.5 million.  A separate Ponemon study found …

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Privacy and Data Security – Apple, Inc. (2013)

September 18, 2012

Whereas, Digital technologies and online communications have created extraordinary business opportunities for Apple; they may also present serious risks to privacy and data security. Breaches of privacy and data security are a constant threat which can result from either company negligence or external attacks. Cyber attacks on U.S. computer networks rose 17-fold from 2009 to 2011, according to the U.S. National Security Agency, with many companies not even realizing they were attacked. Privacy breaches have also grown dramatically in recent years. According to a 2011 Ponemon Institute study, the per capita cost of a data breach was $194, with an …

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