There’s one last deadline coming up for insurance agencies and others subject to New York’s cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies regulation, By November 1 of this year, all businesses covered by the regulation must implement policies and procedures to create and maintain inventories of their computerized assets. We have created a Microsoft Excel workbook for members to download and use to meet this requirement.
Also by November 1, all covered entities must implement multi-factor authentication for all remote access to the agency’s computer network and third-party applications (such as agency management systems) that can be accessed from a mobile device and that contain non-public information.
We encourage all agencies to begin working on these requirements now, rather than waiting until Halloween. More information is available at www.biginy.org/cyber.