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Data breaches are one of the biggest threat to organisations today. They can bring operations to a grinding halt, drastically damage your reputation and your relationship with customers, and cause severe financial losses from lost sales, remediation an… Continue reading Five warning signs you are at risk of a data breach
Digital disruption has long made its presence felt in the retail banking sector. A series of challenger brands have launched in recent years, building innovative and intuitive digital interfaces from the ground up and in some cases forgoing physical pr… Continue reading Banking – Building trust in an age of disruption
Organisations that believe they can ignore cyber risk management and the benefits it offers will probably lose out as others adopt more efficient, more economical, less human-resource-intensive solutions. For effective cyber risk management, an or… Continue reading Every organisation is affected by cyber risk!
Lisa Hawke Contributor Share on Twitter Lisa Hawke (@ldhawke) is VP of Security and Compliance at Everlaw, and Vice Chair of Women in Security and Privacy. Slack and other consumer-grade productivity tools have been taking off in workplaces large and small — and data governance hasn’t caught up. Whether it’s litigation, compliance with regulations like […] Continue reading How to handle dark data compliance risk at your company
We’re kicking off a new series of blogs tackling some of the biggest misconceptions around risk assessments, information security, data protection, regulatory compliance, and other issues that our customers are grappling with. Today’s… Continue reading Myth-busting: Why risk assessments shouldn’t be a one-time thing
For many organisations, information is their most important asset, so protecting it is crucial. Information security is “the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destructi… Continue reading The importance of information security
On 2 April, Google+ will cease to exist for external users. The search giant has cited two main reasons for the move: low user engagement and, more insidiously, software design flaws that allowed “third-party app developers to acce… Continue reading Reputation equals revenue: Why data security and compliance are crucial for ambitious tech companies
Time’s up for major banks, insurers and many of the companies they work with to comply with a New York State cybersecurity regulation that requires more data protection measures than anywhere else in the country. The New York State Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation goes into full effect Friday, two years after officials began to put it in place. “The Department has provided a two year transitional period to address these risks and expects Covered Entities to have completed a thorough due diligence process on all Third Party Service Providers by March 1, 2019,” the department said in an informational page. The rules require DFS-covered entities including financial firms, mortgage brokers, charities and Health Maintenance Organizations to use encryption, multi-factor authentication and tighter third party risk assessments, such as penetration tests, to limit outsiders’ access to corporate data. Covered entities also must notify regulators about a data breach within […]
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It’s an announcement few information security specialists want to make: the organisation has suffered a data breach. The breach itself is bad enough, but now everyone in the office is panicking. Some will grumble about how they’re going to … Continue reading So you’ve suffered a data breach? Here’s what you do next
It is now over eight months since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, affecting all organisations that do business with EU citizens, however small the proportion of overall operations. The frantic last-minute prepa… Continue reading Five lessons we learnt about GDPR in 2018