Application Development GDPR Compliance Guidance

Last week IBM developerWorks released a three-part guidance series I have written to help Application Developers develop GDPR compliant applications. Developing GDPR Compliant Applications Guidance

Part 1: A Developer’s Guide … Continue reading Application Development GDPR Compliance Guidance

Cyber Security Roundup for April 2018

The fallout from the Facebook privacy scandal rumbled on throughout April and culminated with the closure of the company at the centre of the scandal, Cambridge Analytica.

Overview of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Facebook’s Zuckerberg faces formal… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for April 2018

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018

In the wake of the global political fallout over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, there are reports of a growing threat of Russian state or Russian state-affiliated hacking groups conducting cyber attack reprisals against UK organisations, g… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018

How prepared is your business for the GDPR?

The GDPR is the biggest privacy shakeup since the dawn of the internet and it is just weeks before it comes into force on 25th May. GDPR comes with potentially head-spinning financial penalties for businesses found not complying, so it really… Continue reading How prepared is your business for the GDPR?

Cyber Security Roundup for January 2018

2018 started with a big security alert bang after Google Security Researchers disclosed serious security vulnerabilities in just about every computer processor in use on the planet. Named ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’, when exploited by a ha… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for January 2018

Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

UK supermarket giant Morrisons, lost a landmark data breach court case in December after a disgruntled Morrisons employee had stolen and posted the personal records of 100,000 co-workers online, the supermarket chain was held liable for the d… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018

Cyber Security Roundup for November 2017

One of the most notable data breaches disclosed this month was by Uber, given the company attempted to cover up the breach by paying off hackers. Over a year ago the transport tech firm was said to have paid £75,000 to two hackers to delete 57 mil… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2017