As entire workforces remain in remote working conditions, the danger of insider threats is as unmistakable as ever. Learn how an insider threat could manifest itself and what organizations can do about it.
Privacy engineering has become a top architecture challenge. Compliance with local, regional, and international data privacy laws is now a vital business concern, and there’s immense pressure on R&D to effectively implement privacy engineering in ways that bake in compliance.
Increasing connectivity through 5G networks also comes with heightened cybersecurity threats, authorities need to build security regimes that protect not only 5G infrastructure and services, but the applications and IoT devices.
It’s not enough to understand how to leverage AI to improve productivity—it’s also important to understand the dangers that come along with it. Cybercriminals are already finding ways to use the technology to their own advantage, while lax AI policies are allowing data leakage to occur with worrying regulations.
Securing an organization’s unstructured data can be a significant challenge. Unstructured data is more difficult for an organization to monitor and track and is commonly in formats designed to move freely in and out of the organization.
The General Data Protection Regulation is the first comprehensive overhaul of European Union data protection rules in 20 years. This two-part article will examine the GDPR’s impact on businesses in Asia, with a focus on territorial scope, controller and processor obligations, and international data transfers.
In our first article on the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or ‘GDPR’) we focused on the global territorial scope of the new rules and how they could affect businesses based in Asia. In particular, we highlighted how the enhanced rights of data subjects in the EU and the expanded obligations on data controllers and data processors — even if they are located outside the EU — provide much for businesses to consider as they become compliant with the new rules. In this second article, we will focus on the new regulatory-enforcement regime and international data transfers, and then draw comparisons with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system.
On the state level, debates between business and consumer advocates have coalesced over whether to include a private right to action in data privacy legislation. For a federal privacy law, proposed litigation faces an additional hurdle: whether a federal law should preempt state laws.
Pandemic response to coronavirus has forced many Americans to work from home and exposed a digital divide in which online resources are the luxury of people in terms of their income and wealth.
Unlike the 18th and 19th century trading companies, today's tech giants use monopoly not to the benefit of the crown and a nation, but instead for their own personal benefit and the benefit of those wealthy enough to own their stock.
