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7 notified Sears, Best Buy, Delta, and other clients using their platform, about a data breach six months after the breach occurred. What should service providers and organizations that contract these third parties be doing better to protect their customers' privacy and personal data?

Do we need to protect the privacy of the deceased? Let’s look at the two kingpins of privacy regulation mentioned earlier – HIPAA and GDPR. We then take a brief view at a few of the literally hundreds of other personal information protection laws with regard to if and how they relate to the protection of the deceased.

Every business that collects data will have the Insights, Prediction, Action dilemma it confronts. And for that we need a regulatory framework to set boundaries. Am I allowed to dream on? Let’s not wait for regulations. An industry sponsored consortium putting consumer rights and privacy front and center.

Individuals, business leaders, and all other types of organization leaders need to improve their ransomware protections to protect their personal data, preserve privacy, and maintain access to their other data. What are some of the simple steps to avoid being a ransomware victim?

Cybersecurity and AI has dominated the recently concluded WEF at Davos. Yet, there is still a lot more to be done in terms of close and constant cooperation between the pioneering private organizations and the forward thinking governments. Simple right? Easier said than done.

While so much has changed in technology and addressing privacy, it is important to never forget the lessons of the past. The basic categories of privacy risks are still the same and the general concepts for mitigating those risks are also pretty much the same as they were decades ago.

Innovative healthcare technology solutions are raising serious security and privacy concerns. And that has to be addressed. It needs to start with patient advocacy and transparency. And stricter regulations that can be tested by the patients.

In Part I, I left you with a teaser about how a home moving dilemma is the state of the enterprise today for cloud migration. Let’s now dig into the challenges that CIOs and CSOs are facing today in their journey to the Hybrid Cloud.

I was at the #Structure2017 conference and the term hybrid cloud (at last count a day and a half into a two-day conference) has been used 131 times. However – I hazard that between the panelists, interviewers or the audience members who used this term - all have different definitions interpretations of this catchphrase.