Integrating GDPR into your day to day IT practices
GDPR, four letters that when combined strike fear into the heart of any sysadmin. Luckily, there is quite some time before it comes into force, which means getting into the …
Disturbing lack of cyber attack awareness among directors
Britain’s top firms and charities urgently need to do more to protect themselves from online threats, according to new government research and a ‘cyber health check’. One in …
How enterprise IT security conversations have changed
Deutsche Telecom is one of the world’s largest telecom companies, and its corporate IT and cyber security arm T-Systems is one of the largest European IT services …
Only 2% of “GDPR-ready” organizations are actually compliant
Only nine percent of UK organizations that believe they are prepared for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) actually are, new research from Veritas has found. In …
As GDPR approaches, retail data breaches remain unacceptably high
Two in five retailers across the globe have experienced a data breach in the past year, according to Thales and 451 Research. The report reveals that 43 percent of retailers …
Businesses overconfident about keeping attackers at bay
Despite the increasing number of data breaches and nearly 1.4 billion data records being lost or stolen in 2016, the vast majority of IT professionals still believe perimeter …
UK executives badly informed about where data is stored compared to other countries
When it comes to data compliance matters, one in five business decision makers within the UK admit they do not know which compliance regulations their company is subject to, …
Organizations are intimidated by global privacy and data security regulations
While companies generally are aware of and intimidated by global privacy and data security regulations, they fail to properly understand and address necessary organizational …
Is Europe ready for GDPR?
What impact will GDPR have on businesses across the UK, France, Belgium and Luxemburg? Vanson Bourne surveyed 625 IT decision makers in four countries and found that the UK is …
Why companies shouldn’t dread the advent of GDPR
The main aim of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to make sure that the data of EU citizens is protected, no matter where it’s held. The regulation, which will …
Moving towards compliance: GDPR issues and challenges
In this podcast, Mike McCandless, VP of Sales and Marketing for Apricorn, and Jon Fielding, Managing Director for Apricorn EMEA, discuss the European Union General Data …
FTSE companies lack secure data collection methods
With less than a year remaining until the commencement of the GDPR, new research reveals that more than one-third of all public web pages of FTSE 30 companies capturing …