Data Breach

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It’s 2018, Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

April 16, 2018

Anyone dealing with critical information should pay attention to the data they handle, how they are accessing it, and where it originated. The idea is to maintain the integrity of the data and the chain of custody, which is a concept that involves the strict ownership and control over the item in question.

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Blogs Data Privacy Privacy Intelligence

Will Your Contracted Service Providers’ Breaches Take Down Your Business?

April 13, 2018

[24]7 notified Sears, Best Buy, Delta, and other clients using their platform, about a data breach six months after the breach occurred. What should service providers and organizations that contract these third parties be doing better to protect their customers' privacy and personal data?

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Cyber Security Insights

The Impact of Cybersecurity Incidents on Financial Institutions

March 26, 2018

The only guarantee today is that nefarious parties will continue to find new ways to infiltrate networks at financial institutions. Therefore, we must implement best practices to protect against cybersecurity incidents, as well as to resolve all possible issues that can arise should a cyberattack occur.

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Data Privacy News

ICO Flexes Its Muscles with 69% Increase in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches

February 7, 2018

UK's ICO is increasingly active in their efforts to reduce offences in anti-spam regulations and data breaches. In 2017, we witnessed an annual rise in fines of nearly 69 percent, from £2.9 to £4.9 million. A total of 104 companies has been fined a total of £8.7 million for failures since August 2015.

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Insurance Now Critical for Public Sector Agencies?

November 29, 2017

The private sector is increasingly turning to cyber insurance to at least mitigate some of the effects of hacking, however governments across the globe seem to have been slow to take advantage. Given the severity of the cyber threats, is it time for public sector agencies to leverage cyber insurance offerings?

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Cyber Security Insights

Uber Breach: Will They Ever Learn and Will Consumers Ever Care?

November 27, 2017

The Uber breach that affected 57 million people shows the near complete lack of care at the company with regard to customer data – as well as the company’s inability to learn from previous security mishaps. Are customers already desensitized after hearing data breach after data breach or will this be a wake-up call?

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Cyber Security News

Pentagon’s Leaked Database Reveals Extent of Internet Surveillance

November 24, 2017

Misconfigured AWS buckets containing dozens of terabytes worth of social media messages were exposed to the public. The data found in Pentagon's leaked database was gathered by the U.S. military as part of their ongoing efforts to identify so called ‘persons of interest’, revealing the extent of internet surveillance.

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Cyber Security Insights

Never Let a Good Data Breach Go To Waste

November 22, 2017

If a massive data breach has been in the news recently – such as the Equifax data breach that impacted more than 143 million Americans – there’s a good chance that other hackers will capitalize on this public data breach to cause greater harm to victims, and open up those already victimized to even more risk.

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Cyber Security News

Retailers with Identity Protection Boost Consumer Trust of Holiday Shoppers

November 8, 2017

Consumer trust has taken a hit over the past year. Retailers now need to offer identity protection services to regain confidence of holiday shoppers.

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Data Protection News

Board Agenda: Privacy Governance Outpaces Data Breach Reporting

October 25, 2017

Recently released IAPP-EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2017 shows that privacy governance is outpacing data breach reporting as a board-level concern.