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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

Starting Up: Building Your Company’s First Privacy Program

January 31, 2018

Your job as a new CPO is to lay the foundation, merge any existing and new pieces into one privacy program and then lead the way on all things privacy. Where do you start? What are the priorities? How do you introduce privacy concepts to the company? You need a plan.

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Data Privacy Insights

Data Privacy vs. Customer Analytics: How to Do Both

November 27, 2019

Find out how you can use customer analytics to drive new business opportunities while at the same time protect that data and comply with new, complex privacy regulations?

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Data Protection Insights

GDPR’s Big Moment Has Just Arrived – With a $228 Million Data Breach Fine

September 12, 2019

The size of today's GDPR penalties has set the level against which all future data breach fines will be judged as global data breaches are pursued by multiple regulatory authorities and private citizens alike.

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Cyber Security Insights

Ransomware Is Too Easy for Criminals; Let’s Make It Harder

August 24, 2021

Holding companies legally accountable, sharing information, and creating shared security standards won’t completely eradicate ransomware attacks. But they will make it considerably harder to carry out those attacks successfully.

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Data Protection Insights

The New (And Misunderstood) Role of the GDPR Data Protection Officer

January 1, 2019

So what does a GDPR data protection officer need to know to step into this role and be effective? The job will need some significant experience in both IT and risk management at minimum and also other ancillary skills that are important to success in the role.

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Cyber Security Insights

Hacking Humans: How Social Engineering Works

May 24, 2023

Whatever new technologies are adopted, social engineering will evolve in parallel and find work arounds. Even as these security defenses mature, it will always be easier to hack a human than hack a system.

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Cyber Security Insights

Challenges With Compliance in the Cloud

June 1, 2021

Compliance requirements do not always reflect the complexities of new cloud systems or indicate where problems with traditional security approaches do not work as well for cloud security.

Data Privacy Insights

Watching the Watchman: Court Rejects Australian Privacy Commissioner’s Stance on Metadata

February 22, 2017

The decision in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra has important implications for metadata regulation in Australia, and for judicial oversight of the Australian Privacy Commissioner’s functions. This article examines the decision and discusses the key takeaways for businesses that are based in, or doing business with, Australia.

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Data Privacy Insights

If Data Privacy Is Overlooked, It’ll Be a ‘Game-Over’

April 1, 2022

Growing incidences of data breach and theft has put India's gaming industry in a tight spot, hampering its growth to a large extent. A safe gaming environment is needed where the importance of data privacy cannot be undermined.

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Data Protection Insights

What to Expect From Brazil’s General Data Protection Law?

April 22, 2020

Brazilian General Data Protection Law, known as LGPD, will be introduced in early August 2020. How will the law impact the organizations and how does it compare with GDPR?

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Starting Up: Building Your Company’s First Privacy Program

Data Privacy vs. Customer Analytics: How to Do Both

Ransomware Is Too Easy for Criminals; Let’s Make It Harder

Watching the Watchman: Court Rejects Australian Privacy Commissioner’s Stance on Metadata

If Data Privacy Is Overlooked, It’ll Be a ‘Game-Over’

What to Expect From Brazil’s General Data Protection Law?

U.S. Banks are Blocking AI Agents from Accessing Customer Accounts Amid Safety Concerns

OpenAI: AI Agents Turned Off Safety Monitoring Guardrails, Even Lied About It

SafePay Ransomware Breached Over 600 Critical Infrastructure Organizations, CISA Warns

Why Agentic AI Belongs in Your Employee Security Framework