Benefit Plan Cybersecurity Considerations: A Recordkeeper and Plan Perspective

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Wharton Pension Research Council Working Papers
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Cybersecurity
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
benefit plans
data security
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Rouse, Timothy
Levine, David
Itami, Allison
Taylor, Benjamin
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The U.S. has no comprehensive national law governing cybersecurity and no uniform framework for measuring the effectiveness of protections, though retirement plan record keepers maintain the personally identifiable information on millions of workers, collecting names, birth dates, social security numbers, and beneficiaries. Plan sponsors frequently engage consultants and attorneys to help them secure sensitive data, but more work is necessary to engage a larger discussion around this issue. The SPARK Institute has outlined a flexible approach for an independent third-party reporting of cyber security capabilities with several key control objectives.

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2018-12-01
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The published version of this working paper may be found in the 2019 publication: The Disruptive Impact of FinTech on Retirement Systems (https://pensionresearchcouncil.wharton.upenn.edu/the-disruptive-impact-of-fintech-on-retirement-systems/)
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