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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

Online Retailers Brace for the Holiday ‘Hacking’ Season

October 18, 2016

The holiday season in 2016 will see many of these large enterprises up their game in terms of protecting customer data. It’s not as if they have much choice, data breaches in the past have reduced public trust in online retailers – but the latest approaches to ensuring data security go some way to restoring that trust.

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Cyber Security Insights

How Not To Become a Feeder for a Ransomware Scammer

December 21, 2021

Organisations which have chosen the long run tackling digital transformation over the prompt adoption strategy and try to mate it with their established internal tactics have experienced fewer ransomware attacks.

Cyber Security Insights

When IT Becomes the Threat: 58% of All ICS/OT Breaches Tied to IT Compromise

April 30, 2025

A recent survey by the SANS Research Program showed 58% of respondents identified IT compromises as a leading initial attack vector for ICS/OT incidents. This reflects the increasingly interconnected nature of IT and OT environments and highlights the risks associated with this convergence.

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Cyber Security Insights

Mind the Gap: How Organizations Can Protect Their Valuable SAP Systems

June 6, 2022

Only one third of respondents to a recent survey include business-critical systems, like SAP, in cybersecurity monitoring. And one third of those who do include SAP in security monitoring do not review SAP logs for potential cyber threats.

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Data Privacy Insights

Are the Silicon Valley Tech Giants Panicking Yet Over New Privacy Regulations?

May 30, 2018

While the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal has created its share of problems for Facebook, it’s clear that the scale and scope of the scandal extends to every corner of Silicon Valley. After all, most tech giants are collecting staggering amounts of user data and comprehensive new privacy regulations seem imminent.

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Cyber Security Insights

Addressing Mobile Spyware Will Take More Than a Broad Federal Ban

July 21, 2023

Mobile spyware is not a threat that will lessen anytime soon. Mobile devices present an attack surface that is ripe for threat actors. To mitigate the mobile security risk at its root, organizations need to employ an agent on the devices they manage that analyzes applications installed and the SDKs within them.

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Cyber Security Insights

2024 Cyber War Gets Hot—It’s Time to Dynamically Respond

February 19, 2024

Security defenses, almost by definition, are frequently one step behind threat actors as we often must see what we are up against before mounting an effective counterstrategy. Despite this, it’s important to begin with the right foundational layers, and then evolve those layers and defenses as rapidly as possible.

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Cyber Security Insights

Importance of Using SIEM for GDPR Compliance

May 24, 2018

A Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) can play an important role in GDPR compliance. It can serve as a centralized point for all data collection and analysis, and offer intelligent insights into malicious behavior so you can be alerted of security incidents before they become an impactful data breach.

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Data Privacy Insights

Avoiding Dark Patterns: Critical Tools for Privacy Legal Counsel

September 17, 2021

How can well-intentioned companies avoid employing dark patterns by mistake? And how can privacy professionals, particularly attorneys, effectively counsel their clients away from this common, yet all too prevalent, practice?

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Cyber Security Insights

“Some Devices Allowed” – Secure Facilities Face New RF Threats

August 27, 2020

RF-enabled devices are now prevalent in the enterprise and RF security is getting harder to enforce in secure facilities that require more nuanced electronic device policies.

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Insights

Online Retailers Brace for the Holiday ‘Hacking’ Season

How Not To Become a Feeder for a Ransomware Scammer

When IT Becomes the Threat: 58% of All ICS/OT Breaches Tied to IT Compromise

Mind the Gap: How Organizations Can Protect Their Valuable SAP Systems

Are the Silicon Valley Tech Giants Panicking Yet Over New Privacy Regulations?

Addressing Mobile Spyware Will Take More Than a Broad Federal Ban

2024 Cyber War Gets Hot—It’s Time to Dynamically Respond

Avoiding Dark Patterns: Critical Tools for Privacy Legal Counsel

“Some Devices Allowed” – Secure Facilities Face New RF Threats

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