At a time when initial public offerings and other investment-banking business is scarce, Wall Street is all too happy to assist in rolling out a steady stream of ever narrower ETFs, notes Reilly, who formerly headed up equity compliance for Goldman Sachs.

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In its report, Whitehat credits the steady drop in web vulnerabilities to a combination of factors: An increase in regulatory compliance, clients and business partners who increasingly enforce security standards on companies, community awareness campaigns, and an increase in cybercrime that has pressured firms to secure themselves.

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