661 fines issued since GDPR became enforceable, totaling €292 million
3 years since rolling out in May 2018, there have been 661 GDPR fines issued by European data protection authorities. Every one of the 28 EU nations, plus the United Kingdom, …
Do customers have a right to know how companies that use algorithms make their decisions?
Increasingly, businesses rely on algorithms that use data provided by users to make decisions that affect people. For example, Amazon, Google, and Facebook use algorithms to …
Privacy regulations making cloud migration complex
Digital transformation is driving multi-cloud migrations, as 85 percent of organizations use at least two cloud providers for data storage and analytics, while 40 percent use …
58% of orgs predict remote workers will expose them to data breach risk
35% of UK IT decision makers admitted that their remote workers have already knowingly put corporate data at risk of a breach in the last year according to an annual survey …
Middle market companies facing a record number of data breaches
Middle market companies possess a significant amount of valuable data but continue to lack appropriate levels of protective controls and staffing, according to a report from …
How to address post-pandemic infrastructure pain points
Like bankruptcy, falling asleep, or even falling in love, today’s infrastructure and security pain points develop first gradually, and then all at once. The coronavirus …
Using Salesforce? Here are 5 security and compliance considerations
When it comes to mission-critical cloud applications, today’s security teams have a laundry list of different focus areas. From ensuring cloud providers deliver adequate …
Encryption is either secure or it’s not – there is no middle ground
The principle of end-to-end encryption underpins a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages. To this end, it exists to prevent any …
Mobile providers exposing sensitive data to leakage and theft
Data exposure is a significant, unaddressed problem for Europe’s top mobile providers and, by extension, more than 253 million customers who sign up for their services and …
3 steps to meeting data privacy regulation compliance through identity programs
Cybersecurity is undeniably a business-critical function. That’s only been reinforced over the past few months by the SolarWinds and Exchange attacks. Consequently, a recent …
What businesses need to know to evaluate partner cyber resilience
Many recent high-profile breaches have underscored two important cybersecurity lessons: the need for increased scrutiny in evaluating access and controls of partners handling …
Big Tech will try to pre-empt harsh privacy laws by writing their own
Over the past decade, the firms that make up the so-called Big Tech have captured enough of the global economy to resemble industrial cartels from a bygone era. Amazon, Apple, …
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