Data Privacy

Following the announcement of record penalties for Google, British Airways and Marriott under GDPR by French and British data privacy commissioners, where will the EU's privacy watchdogs home in next? Scott Petry, CEO of Authentic8, explains how the EU's privacy...

Small and medium-sized businesses often understand the critical importance of compliance, but just as often don’t have the resources to manage it like larger organizations. Campbell Hutcheson, CCO at Datto, offers guidance to help close that gap. As of 2018,...

Article 22 of GDPR states that AI cannot be used as the sole decision-maker in choices that have legal or similarly significant effects on users; human intervention is a must. Mphasis’ Eric Winston explores how companies can accelerate overall GDPR...

The FTC has handed Facebook the largest privacy fine in history. Russ Berland explores how privacy risks in the U.S. are greater than in any other country right now. The Federal Trade Commission announced a $5 billion settlement with Facebook after...

With over 80 percent of data breaches resulting from compromised passwords, biometric authentication systems emerge as a solution to avoid multimillion-dollar losses, hefty fines and burdensome management of multiple complex passwords. ImageWare’s David Harding discusses. Passwords don’t work anymore; in...

In 2018, with the General Data Protection Regulation going into effect, data security finally secured a spot in the boardroom. SoftwareONE’s Mike Fitzgerald discusses takeaways for compliance practitioners in the year that’s passed since. After years of IT professionals arguing...

Most organizations’ security and data protection efforts are seriously lacking – particularly when it comes to the human element. Abacus Group’s Jonathan Bohrer outlines three components of a successful cyber compliance program: education, protection and monitoring. Hardware, software, networks and...

The CCPA, which goes into effect in six months, will cover data beginning in January 2019, so the time to prepare is now. Aparavi’s CTO Rod Christensen discusses the steps companies must take to ensure compliance as soon as possible....

Businesses need to manage large numbers of network-connected devices, but how much control do we really have on our technology assets? Nlyte’s Mark Gaydos provides highlights from a recent Nlyte survey on how managers control assets now and what’s changing....

Interconnected with the rise of AI is the growth of the IoT, which is already transforming businesses. Mayer Brown’s Linda Rhodes and Charles King III cover not only the rise of IoT, but also the risks of such technology. The internet...

The new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is shaping up to be the toughest privacy law in the U.S. Nymity’s Chief Global Privacy Strategist, Teresa Troester-Falk, discusses what organizations need to do to adapt to the changing U.S. privacy law...

Every company should be expecting a security breach at some point. MetricStream’s Vibhav Agarwal discusses the importance of tackling cybersecurity directly and what risk-focused executives must do to avoid disaster and position their organizations for success. In a world where...