data collection
PII capturing websites still applying poor security measures one year after GDPR
One year after the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, 1 in 10 PII capturing websites belonging to the top 10 UK financial services organizations …
Trust is at a tipping point: Consumers will react strongly if they feel their privacy is compromised
There’s a stunning lack of consumer trust in the ability of private and public sector organizations to protect their data, as well as sharply conflicting views between …
Consumers care deeply about their privacy, security, and how their personal information is handled
65% of consumers are concerned with the way connected devices collect data. More than half (55%) do not trust their connected devices to protect their privacy and a similar …
Building a modern data registry: Go beyond data classification
For organizations, understanding what data they store and analyze is gaining increasing urgency due to new privacy regulations, from the Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) …
79% of organizations want a federal privacy law amid lack of compliance
There is a significant enthusiasm for a federal privacy law amid organizations’ lack of ability to comply with data privacy rules stemming from both mushrooming government …
Consumers concerned about privacy but willing to take risks for convenience
In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyber attacks and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal …
Encryption deployment increases as organizations struggle to address compliance requirements
As organizations embrace the cloud and new digital initiatives such as the IoT, blockchain and digital payments the use of trusted cryptography to protect their applications …
Consumers willing to dump apps that collect private data, but can’t tell which are doing so
Consumers are increasingly leery of third parties using and capitalizing on their private data. Two in three consumers are willing to dump data-collecting apps if the …
Google also abused its Apple developer certificate to collect iOS user data
It turns out that Google, like Facebook, abused its Apple Enterprise Developer Certificate to distribute a data collection app to iOS users, in direct contravention of …
773 million records exposed in massive data breach
Someone has compiled a massive collection of email addresses and plain text passwords, apparently from 2000+ hacked databases, and has made the trove freely available for …
Understanding how data becomes intelligence is central for any successful security program
Threat intelligence is one of the hottest terms in information security at the moment. But, as with so many buzzwords, it is often overused and misused. All the buzz has …
Cybersecurity and ethical data management: Getting it right
Data can provide information, information can lead to insight and knowledge, and knowledge is power. It’s no wonder, then, that seemingly everybody in this modern, …