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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

Organizations, Beware: Protect Against Protestware

May 6, 2022

The term protestware recently made global news when organizations in Russia and Belarus were attacked by malicious code that wiped their computers’ files. This malware was distributed through the popular open source JavaScript library, node-ipc, and was introduced by its maintainer in retaliation for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Cyber Security Insights

Outsmarting the Insider Threat During National Insider Threat Awareness Month

September 14, 2020

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.

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Data Privacy Insights

Overcoming Challenges in Privacy Engineering

January 19, 2023

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.

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Cyber Security Insights

Overcoming Cyber Threats in a 5G World

March 29, 2021

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.

Cyber Security Insights

Overcoming Key Challenges in an AI-Centric Future

January 15, 2025

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.

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Cyber Security Insights

Overcoming the Challenges of Securing Unstructured Data

July 5, 2023

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.

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Data Protection Insights

Overhaul of European Union GDPR – An Asian Perspective (Part I)

April 19, 2016

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.

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Data Protection Insights

Overhaul of European Union GDPR – An Asian Perspective (Part II)

June 21, 2016

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.

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Data Privacy Insights

Overview of State Data Privacy Legislation and Potential Pitfalls to a Unified Federal Approach

October 12, 2022

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.

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Cyber Security Insights

Pandemic Response Exposes a Digital Divide in the U.S.

April 10, 2020

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.

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Insights

Organizations, Beware: Protect Against Protestware

Outsmarting the Insider Threat During National Insider Threat Awareness Month

Overcoming Challenges in Privacy Engineering

Overcoming Cyber Threats in a 5G World

Overcoming Key Challenges in an AI-Centric Future

Overcoming the Challenges of Securing Unstructured Data

Overview of State Data Privacy Legislation and Potential Pitfalls to a Unified Federal Approach

Pandemic Response Exposes a Digital Divide in the U.S.

Ransomware Attack at Coca-Cola’s Fairlife Dairy Company Halts U.S. Operations

Data Breach at Largest Indian Nuclear Power Plant Leaks Sensitive Files

Cyber Attack on Major Japanese Refrigerated Logistics Provider Disrupts KFC and Other Food Chains

Why Purple Teaming Is Becoming the Operating Model for Cyber Defense