NYSIF to Accept Big I Third Party Questionnaire for Cybersecurity Due Diligence

We are pleased to announce that Big I NY and the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) have collaborated to make the third party due diligence process required by New York’s cyber regulation as simple and effective as possible. It is anticipated that NYSIF will accept the completed questionnaire as sufficient to satisfy due diligence on an agent in majority of situations. They may request additional information from agents in cases where they deem it necessary. Additionally, NYSIF will complete the questionnaire for itself and make it available to assist agents in conducting their own due diligence.  We would like to thank NYSIF for soliciting…

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How to File Your Annual Certification of Compliance if You Are an LLC

If you are a Limited Liability Company (LLC) you will be interested in this. Several Big I New York members reached out to find out how they should complete the annual Certification of Compliance required by the NY cyber regulation 23 NYCRR 500. We want to let you know about a clarification we received from the Department of Financial Services (DFS) specific to LLCs.​ When filing your annual Certification of Compliance with the DFS as required by the cybersecurity regulation you are asked to report who reviewed the Certification of Compliance – the Board of Directors or Senior Officer(s).  Since an LLC typically does not…

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