Will the COVID-19 pandemic lead to a spike in the number of reported data breaches? Not necessarily, says cybersecurity expert Brian Honan. But he says that the rush to adopt cloud-based services and expanded remote services might change the types of breaches being reported.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the hacking of Dave, a mobile banking app. Plus: Sizing up the impact of GDPR after two years of enforcement and an assessment of IIoT vulnerabilities.
Now that it's been two years since enforcement of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation began, three attorneys - Kelsey Finch, Jonathan Armstrong and David Dumont - reflect on the lessons learned so far and the compliance gaps that still need to be addressed.
With so many employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, vendors of time-tracking and productivity-monitoring software report surging interest in their wares. Regardless of whether organizations deploy light-touch or more Big Brother types of approaches, beware potential privacy repercussions.
France's top court has upheld a $56 million fine against Google for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its advertising personalization model that lacked adequate user consent measures. The fine is the biggest yet for a GDPR privacy policy violation.
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation was meant to finally bring in line organizations that didn't treat Europeans' personal data with respect. But two years after the regulation went into full effect, why have both the U.K. and Ireland each issued only one final GDPR fine to date?
This whitepaper report looks in detail as to why achieving compliance across a wealth of new international data privacy laws and regulations is such a growing challenge. It will cover:
How data breaches are driving regulatory change
Data protection and the COVID-19 pandemic, an escalating external threat...
Britain's privacy watchdog reports it received 19% fewer data breach notifications in the first quarter than in the same period last year. While the decline may be attributed to more organizations better understanding when to report breaches, other countries have seen an increase in breach reports.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Britain's privacy watchdog has signaled that although privacy rights and transparency - as enshrined under GDPR - remain paramount, it will take a more "flexible" regulatory approach. But this is no data breach "get out of jail" card, legal experts warn.
Supermarket giant Morrisons is not liable for a data breach caused by a rogue employee, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled, bringing to a close the long-running case - the first in the country to have been filed by data breach victims.
Google will appeal the latest GDPR fine levied against the company. The Swedish Data Protection Authority fined the company nearly $8 million for failure to remove search results related to "right-to-be-forgotten" requests.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways over a data breach that lasted four years and exposed the personal information of over 9 million passengers and customers, including 111,000 British citizens. The fine could have been larger, but the cyber incident happened before GDPR went...
A newly released report offers a glimpse into how European Union authorities are applying the General Data Protection Regulation to some of the biggest U.S. technology firms, including social media giants Facebook and Twitter.
Percona is an industry leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-grade support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. After noticing gaps across their third-party security and privacy...
Provident Finanial Group is a FTSE 250 company, and - with 5,700 employees serving 2.4 million customers - Provident understands the strong expectation to work with thirdparties who respect their customer and employee information. New frameworks such as GDPR, recent data breaches, and increased customer expectations...
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