GLBA Compliance Consulting: Safeguards for Financial Institutions of Every Size
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act obligates any business significantly engaged in financial activities to protect customer information — with a written program, named accountability, and controls that examiners and the FTC can verify. We build GLBA programs that hold up to scrutiny without a bank-sized security budget.
- Safeguards Rule programs for lenders, brokers, advisors, and dealers
- Privacy Rule notice and information-sharing practices aligned
- Written risk assessments and WISP the statute explicitly requires
- MFA, encryption, and monitoring implemented as daily operations
- Annual board reporting drafted for your Qualified Individual
GLBA Program Review
Tell us your institution type and current safeguards. We will map your obligations and gaps — regulator-ready language, plain-English explanation.
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Two Rules, One Statute — and Most Firms Only Know Half
GLBA splits into two operative rules. The Privacy Rule governs how you tell customers about information sharing — the annual notices everyone recognizes. The Safeguards Rule governs how you actually protect the data, and since its 2023 amendments it reads like a security framework: risk assessments, access controls, encryption, MFA, monitoring or annual penetration testing, incident response, vendor oversight, and a designated Qualified Individual reporting to the board.
Enforcement is split too: banking regulators examine depository institutions, while the FTC covers everyone else — mortgage brokers, auto dealers, non-bank lenders, tax and accounting practices, investment advisors below SEC thresholds, and collection agencies. That second list is where we do most GLBA work, because those firms rarely have internal security staff and the Rule makes no allowance for that.
What an examiner or FTC inquiry actually asks for, in order: your written risk assessment, your information security program, evidence MFA is enforced, your vendor list with security reviews, and the last annual report to ownership. Firms that can produce those five artifacts in a day have a very different regulatory experience than firms that need three weeks.
- Obligation mapping across FTC and state financial regulators
- Program documents written to your operation, not templates
- Technical safeguards run by the team managing your systems daily
- Examiner-ready evidence, producible on request
The Safeguards Rule Control Set
What the amended Rule requires every covered institution to operate
Who Answers to GLBA — Including the Surprised
The FTC’s “financial institution” definition reaches well past banking
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Be Able to Produce the Five Artifacts
Risk assessment, written program, MFA evidence, vendor reviews, board report — the GLBA package examiners ask for first, built and maintained for you.