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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

The Data Privacy Disconnect Between Businesses and Consumers

February 27, 2023

Consumer trust is at an all-time low and data privacy is becoming a core expectation among 89% of consumers. This demands that businesses reevaluate how they treat their customers’ data to ensure they prioritise privacy-focused practices and technology to keep data safe online.

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Data Protection Insights

Policies and Procedures as Privacy and Security Controls: Why It Is Time They Are Replaced by Something Live and Interactive

February 24, 2023

We are at the stage where the most fundamental and basic controls on which all privacy and security programs rest to some extent, are at a risk of becoming illusory, outdated, not read and used by a great majority of relevant stakeholders. How can we apply more sophisticated approach and tools?

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Threats to Gamers Are on the Rise

February 22, 2023

The popularity of online gaming surged during the COVID-19 pandemic—and so did cyberattacks against gamers with 5.8 million attacks detected over the past year. Cybercriminals are becoming experts in deception which makes them increasingly difficult to detect.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Elevated Risk of Broken RSA Public-Key Encryption Through Quantum Computer

February 20, 2023

Companies with significant amounts of sensitive stored data – whether stored on site or in the cloud -- should begin to invest in emerging quantum-resistant data storage, key management, and multiple encryption technologies.

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Cyber Security Insights

What U.S. Companies Can Learn From the European Payment Scene

February 17, 2023

U.S. consumers have limited exposure to open banking and most of the technology today relies on “screen scraping” which increases fraud risks. Current U.S. banking infrastructure does not promote fidelity between banks and third parties resulting in an uncoordinated API landscape.

Data Privacy Insights

Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

February 15, 2023

The problem with Manifest V3 is that it limits the number of built-in and user-added rules for extensions installed by an individual user. Since at the core of any ad blocker extension is the filtering rules that teach it to detect ads, such restrictions can become a real snag.

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Data Privacy Insights

Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues in Electric Vehicles

February 13, 2023

Here's what businesses, organizations and governmental entities should be considering as they navigate privacy and cybersecurity challenges encountered in the transition to electric vehicles and the supporting infrastructure.

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Insurance: The Policy Changes Needed To Save the Industry

February 9, 2023

In late December last year, Mario Greco, the chief executive of insurance giant Zurich sent shockwaves through the business world when he announced that cyberattacks are set to become uninsurable. Cyber insurance providers are left with no choice but to tighten their policies, or risk going bankrupt.

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Data Privacy Insights

Digital License Plates: Will This New Way to Track Vehicles Enhance or Undermine Privacy?

February 8, 2023

While the vulnerability of digital license plates to hackers poses some risks to consumers, the emergence of this new technology holds real promise for more-effective and less-intrusive vehicle tracking, both for law enforcement and the public.

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Cyber Security Insights

How Quantum Computing Could Affect the Automotive Landscape

February 7, 2023

The automotive industry uses cryptography extensively both in external and internal communication, as well as other uses. Due to the relative rigidity of automotive products, there is an urgent need to fit the vehicles to the quantum computing era as soon as possible.

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Insights

The Data Privacy Disconnect Between Businesses and Consumers

Policies and Procedures as Privacy and Security Controls: Why It Is Time They Are Replaced by Something Live and Interactive

Cyber Threats to Gamers Are on the Rise

The Elevated Risk of Broken RSA Public-Key Encryption Through Quantum Computer

What U.S. Companies Can Learn From the European Payment Scene

Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues in Electric Vehicles

Cyber Insurance: The Policy Changes Needed To Save the Industry

Digital License Plates: Will This New Way to Track Vehicles Enhance or Undermine Privacy?

How Quantum Computing Could Affect the Automotive Landscape

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