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With digital transformation being a key driver in how data is used and shared across systems to help drive innovation as well as improve customer experiences, privacy continues to be an important concern. The introduction of new privacy regulations suc… Continue reading Incorporating Privacy by Design in a Software Development Life-cycle
An increasingly popular form of cyber-crime-Phishing poses a very real and significant threat to organisations as well as individuals around the world. According to a recent report by Verizon, in the last year, nearly a third of all data breaches invol… Continue reading Phishing a popular tactic in cyber-crime
Presently a draft EU legislative instrument, the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation is intended to replace the existing Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, this directive, was adopted by the UK in 2003. The new law aims to consolidate the impl… Continue reading The EU’s ePrivacy Regulation
In 1996 the US congress passed a new regulation for the healthcare industry: The Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), designed to protect the privacy and security of sensitive health information of patients, additional… Continue reading The Impact of HIPAA
With the average cost of a data-breach rising year on year, (with some estimates being close to $4million) it underscores the importance of why cyber security needs to be taken seriously. Cyber-security itself evolves over time meaning businesses need … Continue reading The Top Five Cybersecurity Issues Trending in 2019
When it comes to cybersecurity the telecommunications sector is widely viewed as one of the most vulnerable to cyber security attacks. According to a recent report from Efficient 43% of telecommunication organisations have suffered a DNS-malware … Continue reading The Importance of Cyber-security in the world of Telecommunications
The UK’s Fintech (Financial Technology) sector is on the rise – despite Brexit uncertainty investors have put $16bn into the UK fintech market in just the first-half of 2018, a level of investment surpassing that of both the US and China. T… Continue reading The rise of the Fintech sector
The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a legal concept that is fast evolving in the European Union (EU) that could eventually find its way to the US federal law according to data privacy experts. With the amount of personal information flowing arou… Continue reading Data Erasure & The Right to be Forgotten
The importance of data privacy has become more and more prevalent in the wider context of cyber-security. The recent case (known as Schrems II) heard by the Court of Justice for the European Union, (CJEU) has ramifications that could be a lot more far-… Continue reading Shielding Data Privacy
Recently the E.U celebrated the first-year anniversary of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation. It is widely regarded as the most important change in data privacy regulations within the last decade. Many countries that aren’… Continue reading The introduction of GDPR, one year on…