The Competitive Enterprise Institute hails the decision of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy access regulation, marking the first court invalidation of a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank "financial reform" act.

In recent years, companies have made substantial investments into their information security infrastructure. IT auditing, widespread anti-virus deployments, and other network-based defense mechanisms have had a major impact on the detection and eradication of typical Internet-based malware threats.