Federal Financial Regulators Tighten Timelines for Reporting Ransomware Attacks

As anticipated, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board, and the FDIC recently approved and released the Final Rule Requiring Computer-Security Incident Notification (“Final Rule”).  The Final Rule is designed to promote early awareness and stop computer security incidents before they become systemic.  It places new reporting requirements on both U.S. banking organizations, as well as bank service providers.  We have blogged repeatedly on the pernicious issue of ransomware.

The Final Rule applies to “banking organizations”

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