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Insights

Insights and opinions on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity contributed by thought leaders from around the world.

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Data Privacy Insights

The New Privacy Threat: Airplane Cameras and Google Nest Microphones

March 28, 2019

In a growing number of cases – including some involving Google Nest microphones for the home and airplane cameras found on back of passenger seats – surveillance devices are deployed haphazardly without thinking about the way they might intrude into people’s lives and privacy.

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Cyber Security Insights

The New Shadow IT – The Importance of Having Visibility Into Your SAAS Usage

May 3, 2023

SaaS applications are not going anywhere, and we must face the fact that they have access to our company’s most sensitive data. With SaaS, the shadow IT challenge has expanded and deepened even further.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Next Fraud Problem Isn’t in Finance. It’s in Hiring: The New Attack Surface

December 19, 2025

Remote work and remote hiring didn’t just change where people sit. They changed how trust is established.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Nexus of Information Security and Data Privacy: Why Focusing on Both Can Keep Us Safer

March 22, 2019

What kind of future can be achieved by focusing on the nexus of information security and data privacy? Better compliance, stronger alignment and greater accountability, just to name a few benefits.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Noise and the Value: What Your Threat Intelligence Program Should Have in Common With Great Advertising

March 7, 2022

Perfectly targeted advertising is just information. It reduces or distills the noise down to information which is welcomed by the recipient. What does this have to do with your threat intelligence program? Everything.

Businessmen using mobile phones showing how Dashboard Act keeps U.S. on the frontlines of data privacy even though NYPA fails to pass legislation

Data Protection Insights

The NYPA is Dead for Now – But Dashboard Act Keeps U.S. on the Frontlines of Data Privacy

August 8, 2019

Even though NYPA has failed to pass legislation, all is not lost for data privacy as the introduction of Dashboard Act will require commercial data operators to disclose and assess the value of data collected from users.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Ocean’s Eleven Casino Vault Could Have Used Zero Trust Security

March 14, 2022

Bypassing of security during the successful heist of the Bellagio vault came down to identity and perimeter defenses, the main vulnerabilities of network security—and exactly the weaknesses that zero trust methodology fortifies for organizations.

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Data Protection Insights

The Ohio Data Protection Act and the Quiet Revolution

March 8, 2019

The Ohio law represented a novel approach to data protection by providing safe harbor if the entity’s cyber security program conforms to industry recognized cybersecurity frameworks or federal regulations cited in the Act.

Ransom sign on laptop showing double extortion ransomware attack

Cyber Security Insights

The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware

March 8, 2023

Ransomware operators have long targeted systems and data availability of their victims, and have been evolving their attack patterns to include the privacy and confidentiality of victim data as well. Attackers are increasingly pushing for double and sometimes triple extortion of their victims.

Two surgeons looking at screen showing need to amend HITECT Act for healthcare sector

Cyber Security Insights

The Pandemic Affecting the Healthcare Sector – A Call for Amending the HITECH Act

October 21, 2020

With specific guidance from an amended HITECH Act to include a comprehensive cyber policy, the healthcare industry will better secure patients’ data.

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Insights

The New Privacy Threat: Airplane Cameras and Google Nest Microphones

The New Shadow IT – The Importance of Having Visibility Into Your SAAS Usage

The Next Fraud Problem Isn’t in Finance. It’s in Hiring: The New Attack Surface

The Nexus of Information Security and Data Privacy: Why Focusing on Both Can Keep Us Safer

The Noise and the Value: What Your Threat Intelligence Program Should Have in Common With Great Advertising

The NYPA is Dead for Now – But Dashboard Act Keeps U.S. on the Frontlines of Data Privacy

The Ocean’s Eleven Casino Vault Could Have Used Zero Trust Security

The Ohio Data Protection Act and the Quiet Revolution

The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware

The Pandemic Affecting the Healthcare Sector – A Call for Amending the HITECH Act

Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

Who Will Break Who: Microsoft or Mythos?

Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

Carnival Cruise Data Breach Exposes Nearly 6 Million People in Cyber Attack Linked to ShinyHunters