Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

Client management platforms have become an essential part of an RIA’s tech stack as these tools make it easier to access and update customer information. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ...

New Jersey's Rules of Professional Conduct provide that a lawyer "shall not" reveal information "relating to representation of a client," subject to certain enumerated exceptions. RPC 1.6(a).

Customers rely on brokerages, advisors, accountants and even insurance agents to keep their information safe, secure and confidential. Well before the stay-at-home mandates of the pandemic, state ...

Effective cybersecurity requires an ongoing, risk-based, comprehensive process that addresses people, policies and procedures, and technology, including training. Effective security also requires an ...

Accountants and tax professionals are responsible for a vast amount of their clients’ financial information – and as hackers proliferate and become more sophisticated in the methods they use to steal ...

Confidential data in computers and information systems, including those used by attorneys and law firms, faces greater security threats today than ever before. And, they continue to grow! They take a ...

Bank staffers are selling client data in back-door deals with online fraudsters — helping to facilitate sophisticated scams that target the live savings of Americans, according to a report. These bank ...

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