Posts from October 2024.
On October 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged four companies with making materially misleading disclosures about their cybersecurity risks. Each of the companies—Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., and Mimecast Limited—agreed to pay hefty monetary penalties to settle the SEC’s charges.
The fines follow a lengthy investigation by the SEC into public companies affected by the 2020 SolarWinds breach, one of the most widespread cyberattacks to date. The attack, largely believed to have been carried out by ...
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