Marty Vanderploeg: Security update on SEC’s data standard

No one can say yet what effect the hacking of SEC's system for companies to submit financial information might have on stock trading markets.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton revealed the SEC’s system for companies to submit financial information, known as Edgar, had been hacked. No one can say yet what effect that might have on stock trading markets. At the heart of Edgar is a data standard known as XBRL. Marty Vanderploeg, co-founder and COO of Workiva, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update on this standard and security connected with it.

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