Thursday, March 16. 2023
SEC Reopens Comment Period for Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule Proposal, Amendments for Registered Investment Advisers and Funds
Thursday, April 21. 2022
XBRL US Shares Digitized ESG Reports to Demonstrate Value of Machine-readable Sustainability Data
Friday, March 11. 2022
SEC Proposes Rules to Increase Transparency Regarding Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure
Monday, February 28. 2022
SEC Announces Proposed Cybersecurity Risk Management Rules and Amendments for Registered Investment Advisers and Funds
Friday, January 14. 2022
SEC Revises Notification for EDGAR Cipher Update
As a reminder, the SEC is updating the ciphers it supports in its Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocol on Monday, January 17, 2022. The upcoming upgrade was previously announced on August 25, 2021 and October 27, 2021.
Continue reading "SEC Revises Notification for EDGAR Cipher Update" »Thursday, December 16. 2021
SEC Announces Proposed Modifications to Electronic Recordkeeping Rule Requirements
Monday, August 09. 2021
XBRL US to Present Webinar on Inline XBRL for Mutual Funds
Wednesday, March 17. 2021
SEC Makes Announcement About Disabling TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Monday, January 20. 2020
EDGAR 20.1 Security Changes
As part of security enhancements in the forthcoming EDGAR 20.1 release, the SEC will no longer accept connections to the EDGAR system that do not follow the TLS 1.2 standard. Since the GoFiler family of products uses Microsoft’s Security Support Provider Interface to connect to the EDGAR system, support for TLS 1.2 in the application is based on the current Windows operating system and Internet Explorer.
Continue reading "EDGAR 20.1 Security Changes" »Friday, December 14. 2018
XBRL US Introduces Proposed API Standard
Last month, XBRL US introduced a free application program interface (API) standard as a Proposed Release. The API is designed to help programmers create, extract, and analyze XBRL formatted data. It is meant to be a standard that acts as a software intermediary, allowing applications to communicate with one another. Investors and analysts alike can use the XBRL API to gain access to and manipulate XBRL data, both historical data and data that is up-to-date. The API will work with any XBRL database or taxonomy.
Continue reading "XBRL US Introduces Proposed API Standard" »Thursday, October 25. 2018
SEC Launches New Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology
On October 18th, the SEC announced the launch of the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub). The FinHub will be a resource for public engagement on the SEC’s finanical technology (FinTech) related issues and initiatives. These issues include distributed ledger technology (including digital assets), automated investment advice, digital marketplace financing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning, among other points of interest. FinHub will replace, consolidate, and build on the work of several internal working groups at the SEC that focus on similar issues.
Continue reading "SEC Launches New Strategic Hub for Innovation..." »Wednesday, September 13. 2017
SunSpec Alliance and XBRL US Announce Public Review of Orange Button Solar Data Standards
On September 12th, 2017, SunSpec Alliance and XBRL US announced the launch of a 30-day public review period on the initial draft of the Orange Button taxonomy for solar financing.
Continue reading "SunSpec Alliance and XBRL US Announce Public..." »Friday, May 05. 2017
Use of SHA-1 SSL Certificates and Windows Server
Back in November of 2013, Microsoft released a Security Advisory stating that by January of 2016 Microsoft would no longer allow root authorities to issue certificates using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. As that date has come and gone, most users probably never even noticed anything happening. This is because browsers were quick to adopt the new changes. E-commerce is part of everyday life and no one wants to buy something from a site that their browser says is insecure. However, SSL certificates are used for many other things, including verifying publishers of software and drivers. This is also known as code signing.
Continue reading "Use of SHA-1 SSL Certificates and Windows Server" »Tuesday, February 21. 2017
End of Support for Windows Vista
As computers advance so do their operating systems, bringing better user experiences and faster operations. However, such changes usually have a cost so not all businesses adopt a change unless it there is a very clear and measurable benefit. Evidence of this practice was abound when the end of life came for Windows XP, as many businesses were still using that operating system instead of Vista, 7 or 8. Waiting until after the end of support for an operating system to occur before upgrading isn’t ideal, and the difficulties such businesses encountered should be a lesson for all.
Continue reading "End of Support for Windows Vista" »Wednesday, November 23. 2016
Controlling Windows Update in Windows 10
With the changing pace of technology, companies like Microsoft need to be vigilant about security issues. Every office has experienced it – that one user that gets a virus and the whole office becomes infected in a matter of minutes. To combat this problem Microsoft has started to force computers to update automatically. Gone are the days of Windows XP where users could continue to hit “Postpone” for weeks on end. Now we have the new Windows Update that installs and restarts your computer for you. Instead of coming into work to a virus attack, users are now unfortunately coming into work to find their documents and applications closed and their computers restarted.
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