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

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Cyber Security Insights

Armour up! Top 3 Security Trends to Watch

January 20, 2016

Last year, cyber security breaches wreaked havoc on some of the biggest financial institutions, retailers and governments in the world, causing data and financial loss and even corporate embarrassment for a certain entertainment powerhouse. In 2016, we can likely expect more - more advanced attacks including targeted industry espionage, ransomware, and social engineering.

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Cyber Security Insights

Don’t Wait for Security Standardization – Clean House Now

October 24, 2022

Organizations are facing a complex patchwork of cybersecurity tools that are not integrated or are too niche. It's time to audit the current security stack, identify gaps and redundancies, and then create a go-forward plan to course-correct.

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Data Privacy Insights

Government Surveillance, Security and Privacy: Does Security Always Win? (Part II)

January 25, 2017

In this two-part series, we explore some of the issues around government surveillance and the search for that elusive balance between security and privacy. In this second part, we look at the search for that digital ‘safe place’ where privacy is assured and just why that place is becoming ever more elusive.

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Cyber Security Insights

Identity Theft Protection Services Evolve in Digital Convenience Era Vulnerable to ID Fraud

January 11, 2019

The threats posed by identity theft are not lost on organizations and identity theft protection services are expected grow over 11% and generate revenues worth over US$ 8.2 billion in 2019.

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Cyber Security Insights

Go the Distance With Ransomware Recovery

November 3, 2022

There are a number of pitfalls to successful ransomware recovery and not all of them are technical. To truly dig into tackling the problem in the most efficient, quick, and cost-effective manner possible, while bringing things back up safely, we need to calculate risk.

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Cyber Security Insights

Shadow SaaS Is on the Rise in the Hybrid Work Era; Here’s How To Regain Control

July 29, 2021

IT security teams need to develop a SaaS management strategy to mitigate and address their shadow applications to mitigate the security and compliance risks shadow IT poses to their organizations.

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Hygiene: The Need to Focus on Cyber Security Basics

August 21, 2018

According to Tripwire's State of Cyber Hygiene report, many organizations are simply not getting their cyber security basics right. And there is a distinct lack of focus on the proper maintenance and basic protection organizations need to put in place for cyber defense.

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Data Protection Insights

Worried About CCPA? Devalue Your Company’s Payments Data

May 4, 2020

Companies could devalue their customers’ payment data to avoid CCPA penalties and litigation by using techniques that make it difficult for hackers to exploit.

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Cyber Security Insights

Making Compliance with Cybersecurity Regulations Easy for Critical Infrastructure

October 3, 2018

Critical infrastructure systems are becoming increasingly connected and digitized. The sector is also facing expanding cybersecurity regulations to address cyber threats as the potential for dangerous cyber attacks increases as a result.

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Data Privacy Insights

Privacy and Anonymity in the Age of Big Data

June 22, 2017

A key concept of many privacy laws is the definition of “personal data”, “personal information” or “personally identifiable information”. If it’s not “personal data”, you are likely outside of the scope of data protection laws, however that is a line in the sand which is constantly moving – in this article David Fraser of McInnes Cooper in Canada examines what that constantly shifting line means for privacy, and the individual.

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Insights

Don’t Wait for Security Standardization – Clean House Now

Government Surveillance, Security and Privacy: Does Security Always Win? (Part II)

Identity Theft Protection Services Evolve in Digital Convenience Era Vulnerable to ID Fraud

Go the Distance With Ransomware Recovery

Shadow SaaS Is on the Rise in the Hybrid Work Era; Here’s How To Regain Control

Cyber Hygiene: The Need to Focus on Cyber Security Basics

Worried About CCPA? Devalue Your Company’s Payments Data

Making Compliance with Cybersecurity Regulations Easy for Critical Infrastructure

Privacy and Anonymity in the Age of Big Data

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