Governance, risk & compliance

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation 2023

RegionalUSA - New York

New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500), amended 2023.

Applies to all DFS-regulated entities including banks, insurance companies, and financial services firms operating in New York. Requires CISO designation, cybersecurity policy, penetration testing, audit trails, access controls, encryption, incident response, and third-party security.

Annual certification of compliance required.

Official reference: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/cybersecurity

How Lavawall® helps you get to NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation compliance

Most of NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation comes down to technical controls you have to run and prove: keeping systems patched, hardening configuration, detecting breaches early, backing up what matters, controlling access, and keeping evidence that all of it actually happened. Lavawall® runs those controls across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace from one console, maps them to NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, and tracks your posture continuously instead of once a year at audit time.

• Assess your current state against NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation in the Lavawall GRC module, with the questionnaire and control set built in.
• Remediate the gaps with the same platform — automated patching, configuration fixes, backups, and access review — not a separate project.
• Evidence everything with timestamped, exportable records auditors, insurers, and clients accept.

Related

Lavawall® supports NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation as part of a built-in catalogue of compliance frameworks. Framework requirements are summarized for planning purposes; always confirm the current official text before certifying.