Cybersecurity and Risk Insights and Alerts

Cyber risks and threats continue to evolve, and firms are under pressure to meet SEC and FCA expectations for operational resilience as well as their own internal and client expectations for cybersecurity and privacy. Stay current on the latest cybersecurity, privacy, and risk threat and regulatory alerts, and build your cybersecurity and privacy knowledge with insights from our cybersecurity and technology risk experts.

ACA Aponix Cybersecurity Checklist

Download and review the following cybersecurity safeguards and evaluate your firm’s cybersecurity program.

Cyber alerts and insights

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Privacy Considerations on Returning to the Office

Read our guidelines for best privacy practices in implementing contact tracing and symptom tracking of employees as stay-at-home restrictions begin to ease and employees who have been working from home return to the office.

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  • Cybersecurity
  • Privacy
Compliance Alert

SEC Examination Requests Related to COVID-19 Business Continuity and Operational Resilience

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) announced in March that it intends to engage in an ongoing outreach with registrants to assess the impacts of COVID-19, including challenges impacting operational resiliency. In the last few weeks, ACA has seen an increase in the number of examinations announced by the SEC examination staff.

Compliance Alert
  • Compliance
  • BCP
  • COVID-19
  • Cybersecurity
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Case Study: Portfolio Risk Management for Oil & Gas

Read how a private equity energy investor experiencing increased cyber threats to its portfolio companies worked with ACA Aponix to deploy a comprehensive risk management solution to cover all of the firm’s oil and gas portfolio companies.

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  • Cybersecurity
  • Portfolio Company Risk Management
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Case Study: Holistic Risk Assessment for Lynx FBO Aviation

Read how Lynx FBO Network (Lynx) in the general aviation industry worked with ACA Aponix to execute a Holistic Technology and Cybersecurity Risk Assessment.

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  • Cybersecurity
  • Portfolio Company Risk Management
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GoDaddy Breach Discovered

Web hosting giant GoDaddy® has suffered a breach affecting thousands of users, per reports of security researchers. The data breach occurred in October 2019, but was first discovered on April 23rd of this year.

Cyber Alert
  • Cybersecurity
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Vulnerability Discovered in Email App on iPhone and iPad

Learn how to protect yourself from the "zero-click” vulnerability discovered on Apple® iPhones® and iPads® that enables bad actors to hack into devices by sending specially crafted email.

Cyber Alert
  • Cybersecurity