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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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Data Privacy Insights

Biometric Identification – Knowing Who (and Where) You Are

December 24, 2018

Privacy risks inherent in the use of biometric identification are extreme. In the event of a data breach, you cannot reissue an iris or a fingerprint. As technologies become more advanced and surveillance on city streets the norm who will draw the line at just what level of invasive monitoring is permissible?

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Data Privacy Insights

Biometrics and Data Privacy: How Businesses Can Secure Personal Information

March 28, 2025

When you hear “sensitive personal information,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Social security numbers? Addresses? Bank account information? It’s time to add a few more to the list: iris movement, facial recognition, fingerprints, voice identifiers and even your blood.

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Data Protection Insights

Black Swans and GDPR: Ensuring Security and Compliance in Challenging Times

November 24, 2020

How organizations can maintain a strong security and compliance posture during the ‘new normal’ of remote working?

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Cyber Security Insights

Blind in the Marketplace: How Vendors and Suppliers Expose Enterprises to Risk

September 1, 2021

New quantitative study exposed what some risk managers and compliance executives have suspected: Vendors are not complying with corporate insurance requirements, representing a significant risk for their clients and partners.

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Cyber Security Insights

Blockchain and Its Impact on the Future of Cyber Security

February 14, 2018

There is reason to be optimistic about the future of cyber security. In today’s world, there is always a “weak link” in the chain that hackers can exploit. In a blockchain world, there are no longer any weak links and every action taken on the blockchain is part of a completely verifiable and trackable digital ledger.

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Data Privacy Insights

Blockchain Could Be the Answer to Online Privacy Concerns

March 23, 2021

How can businesses walk the tightrope between using critical customer data and protecting their privacy? Emerging privacy technologies like blockchain and confidential computing provide an ideal solution.

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Cyber Security Insights

Blockchain is the Future of Antivirus

May 7, 2018

There is an obvious problem with how we approach cyber security. But blockchain may enable a single marketplace of enterprises, consumers, vendors and geographically-diverse security experts to help revise the hiring model, make cyber security more efficient, and decrease the impact of malicious attacks globally.

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Data Protection Insights

Blockchain Privacy Poisoning a New Concern in Post-GDPR Era

March 14, 2019

The features that make blockchain so attractive to enterprises are also the very features that could lead to headaches like “blockchain privacy poisoning", which Gartner has named as one of the biggest risks facing organizations over the next few years.

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Cyber Security Insights

Blockchain Technology Can End a Multi-Million Dollar Financial Fraud

March 30, 2022

Given the severity of losses and criminal activity within the coupon sector, stakeholders used blockchain technology to establish a Universal Digital Coupon for the retail industry to enhance coupon security and reduce financial fraud.

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Cyber Security Insights

Blockchain, for Threat Intelligence Maybe?

March 2, 2019

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.

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Insights

Biometric Identification – Knowing Who (and Where) You Are

Biometrics and Data Privacy: How Businesses Can Secure Personal Information

Blind in the Marketplace: How Vendors and Suppliers Expose Enterprises to Risk

Blockchain and Its Impact on the Future of Cyber Security

Blockchain Could Be the Answer to Online Privacy Concerns

Blockchain is the Future of Antivirus

Blockchain Technology Can End a Multi-Million Dollar Financial Fraud

Blockchain, for Threat Intelligence Maybe?

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