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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

Can We Rid the Open Web of Its “Gatekeepers”?

April 8, 2021

It’s no secret that big tech giants hold some of the world’s biggest data repositories. With an unhealthy concentration of market power in the media industry through their exclusive “walled gardens'' of user data, where can the internet go from here?

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Cyber Security Insights

How UK Universities Can Keep Their Data Safe From Ransomware

November 17, 2020

UK universities are under high threat levels from state actors as well as financially motivated cybercrime, especially ransomware. How can universities keep themselves safe?

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Data Privacy Insights

China’s Social Credit System – An Episode out of Black Mirror?

December 22, 2017

China's Social Credit System is scores the reputation of citizens and businesses operating within its sovereign border, using data collected from social media, financial institutions and government records. The purpose is to increase trust, transparency and confidence in the domestic marketplace but at what cost?

Businessman standing in conference interior with city view showing data protection in a security-first future

Cyber Security Insights

Data Protection in a Post-COVID World: How Organizations Can Prepare For a Security-First Future

May 17, 2021

IT and security decision-makers need to prepare for an expanding digital world and consider how increasing cloud usage, consumer distrust, new legislation, and a permanently distributed workforce impacts the ways in which they do business.

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Cyber Security Insights

The Cutting Edge of AI Cyber Attacks: Deepfake Audio Used to Impersonate Senior Executives

July 18, 2019

Deepfake audio is becoming the powerful new tool to perform AI cyber attacks by impersonating executives to convince employees to authorize money transfers.

Image of highways over a China city representing China's cybersecurity law driving towards cyber sovereignty

Cyber Security Insights

China’s Cybersecurity Law Pushes Cyber Sovereignty Vision

January 8, 2018

For years, China has used the World Internet Conference to advance its vision for cyber sovereignty. Now it looks like the various ideas and concepts, including the new Cybersecurity Law, undergirding this vision are starting to be put into effect for China’s Internet, with unknown implications.

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Data Privacy Insights

Your Privacy May Feel Safer at Home – But Your Smart Speaker Is Listening, and It’s Creepy

October 28, 2020

Whiles sales of smart speakers are skyrocketing, research from the Ponemon Institute, reveals that 69% of respondents say they are very concerned about protecting their data privacy when using these smart devices.

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Cyber Security Insights

Ransomware – Keeping Ahead of the Latest Threat Techniques

January 22, 2024

Criminal gangs behind ransomware attacks will continue to adapt their techniques to maximize their returns. They are increasingly using novel tactics to circumvent traditional security solutions and one of the most significant shifts is that attacks involving data exfiltration are now the norm.

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Cyber Security Insights

Ransomware Is Too Easy for Criminals; Let’s Make It Harder

August 24, 2021

Holding companies legally accountable, sharing information, and creating shared security standards won’t completely eradicate ransomware attacks. But they will make it considerably harder to carry out those attacks successfully.

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Cyber Security Insights

Why ‘Data for Data’s Sake’ Creates Risks for Business

April 15, 2022

Collecting more data without doing due diligence, getting the right team on the ground, and the right AI or processing tools for that team to use, is a massive gamble. You risk spending a lot of money and creating more security risks, without any of the pay off.

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Can We Rid the Open Web of Its “Gatekeepers”?

How UK Universities Can Keep Their Data Safe From Ransomware

China’s Social Credit System – An Episode out of Black Mirror?

The Cutting Edge of AI Cyber Attacks: Deepfake Audio Used to Impersonate Senior Executives

China’s Cybersecurity Law Pushes Cyber Sovereignty Vision

Your Privacy May Feel Safer at Home – But Your Smart Speaker Is Listening, and It’s Creepy

Ransomware – Keeping Ahead of the Latest Threat Techniques

Ransomware Is Too Easy for Criminals; Let’s Make It Harder

Why ‘Data for Data’s Sake’ Creates Risks for Business

New US National Security Order Calls for Pre-Release Access and Assessment of AI Models

Hackers Hijacked Instagram Accounts by Tricking Meta AI Support Chatbot into Linking Their Email Address

Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

Who Will Break Who: Microsoft or Mythos?