With GDPR making headway in regulating data privacy at an international level, many U.S. states are following suit to pass their own laws and bills to protect consumer’s personal data.
Given the growing prevalence of data breaches, evidence is building that many cyber insurance policies might be close to worthless, as insurance companies look for any excuse possible to avoid paying out the full amount of a claim.
Advertisers are expected to lose $100 million a day to digital ad fraud in the next five years, what preventive approach that business can take to protect themselves?
Easy targets. That’s the best way to describe universities and colleges as targets of cyberattacks. Most still operate using legacy systems and infrastructure, and many users, devices, and inadequate cybersecurity policies make them easy prey for bad actors.
The exit of the United Kingdom from the EU has caused turmoil in world markets and has far reaching consequences for those companies in the European Union doing business with the country – and vice versa. There has also been some uncertainty about how the authorities based in London will be treating data security and privacy issues. The consensus seems to be that companies doing business with the second largest economy in Europe (after Germany) should be adopting a ‘business as usual’ approach. However, will this necessarily be the case in the future? Will global companies with a British connection (including those in Asia) be forced to revisit how they treat data security and privacy issues when dealing with the United Kingdom – and will British companies move away from the rules that have been set in place by Brussels? We take a closer look.
Consumers are growing increasingly intolerant of cyberattacks and the downtime that’s often associated with them. Businesses are under serious pressure for solid disaster recovery planning.
For CPO Cynthia Van Ort, former North American chief privacy officer for Citigroup and the newly appointed global CPO for a large multinational corporation, a successful privacy approach boils down to delivering consumer empowerment while providing convenient, cutting-edge products and services. Hear her advice for aspiring privacy pros.
When targeted by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), an organization needs to be ready to defend from a variety of different attacks coming from different directions, sometimes all at once, and sometimes over a period of time.
Sysadminds need clarity, not clutter – and right now their systems are getting backlogged with excessive false positives. This is where implementing a vulnerability assessment solution that has the built-in intelligence for in-memory patch awareness comes in.
Reasonable security is required for 5G IoT devices under new California and Oregon IoT security laws but it’s up to manufacturers to interpret the requirements and develop standards.
