While proposed amendments to narrow the scope of the CCPA might tempt financial services organizations to put CCPA compliance on the backburner, that instinct might prove to be flawed for quite a few reasons.
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.
With successful defenses against ransomware, and since cryptojacking has become less profitable with cryptocurrencies’ fall in value, formjacking has become the new avenue for online criminal activity. It’s easy to do, it’s scalable, and it’s hard to stop.
Big tech companies are pushing for watered-down privacy regulations that would largely permit them to continue doing business as usual. There is reason to suspect that these tech companies now view federal privacy regulations as a way to construct barriers and moats around their core business.
The €50 million fine against Google is a sign that GDPR grade transparency is here to stay. Legalistic privacy policies will always be with us of course, but the privacy world is currently primed to embrace a new “layered notice” paradigm for delivering privacy information to users on their terms.
Putting in place people-focused security and risk policies in a contextual and transparent way without getting in the way, companies can create a flexible, secure environment and superior employee experience in the digital era.
Blockchain can bring the world to a common consensus of “what exactly happened” when it comes to threat intelligence, reducing confusion and complication, and promoting trust in the information.
While digital forensics software and services that are used in cases of cybercrime currently account for just about $430 million, the growth of cybercrime is likely to generate substantial demand in the years to come.
A recent study conducted by Chubb in major Asia-Pacific markets reveals that SMEs tend to be both overconfident and underprepared when it comes to cyber awareness.
By protecting machine-to-machine communication using machine identity protection, you can help stop many insider threats and a wide variety of other security threats, before they can damage your network and your company as a whole.
