Spektrum Labs has announced the launch of a free New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Compliance Journey, designed to help organizations meet the updated requirements of 23 NYCRR Part 500. The limited-time offer provides a guided, step-by-step process to validate and prove compliance while strengthening cybersecurity posture and reducing regulatory exposure.
Updated NYDFS Cybersecurity Requirements
Effective November 1, 2025, all entities covered under 23 NYCRR Part 500 must comply with several new mandates:
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Required for all individuals accessing any information system, expanding beyond previous requirements that applied only to remote or privileged accounts.
- Asset inventory: Organizations must establish and maintain a complete, accurate, and documented inventory of their information systems, serving as a single authoritative source of truth.
- Risk assessments: Must be updated more frequently than once a year when a “material change” occurs.
Together, these changes emphasize the need for continuous monitoring, documentation, and verification of cybersecurity programs — not just annual assessments.
Features of the Free NYDFS Compliance Journey
Spektrum’s free NYDFS Journey helps organizations achieve continuous compliance through:
- A full NYDFS-aligned compliance checklist
- Automated resilience and control validation
- Zero-knowledge proof capability for audit-grade attestations
Built on Spektrum’s patented Cyber Resilience Data Fabric, the platform enables real-time validation and automates the most time-consuming parts of compliance. It also offers cryptographic proof of resilience.
Key Platform Capabilities
- Tokenized compliance & audit readiness: Converts cybersecurity, backup, and compliance data into immutable, verifiable tokens that represent specific NYDFS requirements. This allows organizations to demonstrate compliance without disclosing sensitive data.
- Zero-knowledge proofs: Validates that risk assessments have led to updated controls while protecting internal configurations and sensitive information.
- Real-time compliance monitoring (paid version): Provides a continuously updated compliance view, alerting teams when controls drift out of compliance and triggering corrective workflows.
Organizations can enroll in the free NYDFS Journey through Spektrum’s website.
Statement from Spektrum Leadership
Joshua Brown, CISO of Spektrum, said: “With the NYDFS amendments, proving compliance becomes a continuous state of readiness, not an annual event. The ability to rapidly and automatically demonstrate audit-readiness and risk-informed controls is no longer a competitive advantage; it’s a regulatory necessity. Spektrum is the only platform offering provable, real-time, tokenized compliance with integrated support for audits, automated remediation, and insurability.”
About Spektrum Labs
Spektrum Labs is an AI-first cyber resilience company focused on building infrastructure for provable protection. By integrating security, backup, and insurance, Spektrum provides cryptographic proof that safeguards are working before, during, and after a breach. Enterprises use the Spektrum Fusion platform to streamline board reporting, accelerate insurance approvals, and verify resilience.
For more information, visit spektrum.ai.
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