Data Privacy

Reflecting Pressure on Companies to Address Cybersecurity Deficiencies Yahoo recently agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $35 million to resolve claims that the company misled investors by failing to disclose a massive cybersecurity breach.  Cybersecurity whistleblowers should feel empowered...

Whether you are ready or not, the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes live on May 25, 2018. It will impact companies doing business in London as much as any other EU legislation. To help US companies...

Evolving Communication Tools Pose New Challenges for Security Banks aren't strangers to reining in their employees' use of communications tools. However, the methods preferred by customers and client reps continue to change, and if banks don't keep up with these...

Sophisticated Data Breaches Threaten the U.S. NuData Security, passive biometrics and Mastercard company, announced that they have found that 40% of all account access attempts online are high risk. They also found that account takeovers increased ten times in 2017...

Data Privacy Hits A High Price in Assuming New Technology Solutions In this article, Mike Mason reconciles the challenges of maintaining regulatory requirements of data privacy within cloud computing technology. It is critical to keep cloud applications compliant, while meeting...

How Businesses Can Minimize Their Risk It is estimated that well over half of U.S. businesses are out of compliance with the GDPR regulations set to take effect on May 25. Businesses are simply unprepared because they struggle with understanding...

10 Behaviors That Will Put Your Organization at Risk If your company isn't ready to comply with the GDPR, then you may need to sound the alarm. Fines for noncompliance could be 4 percent of your company's annual global revenue. This...

New Guidance Mandates Greater Attention to Cybersecurity Planning The SEC’s recently issued guidance is just the latest indication that government regulators want companies to improve both their overall cybersecurity and incident response and notification procedures. Businesses must adopt and maintain...

The Importance of Digital Vendor Management As the digital landscape grows and changes, businesses rely on an increasingly sprawling network of third, fourth, and fifth parties to render final, consumer-facing content. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust, explains why...

Guidance for Information Governance Guardians Every business relies on information assets to assist with daily functions. Today's increased cybersecurity risks call for organizations to monitor their data closely in an effort to classify and protect it. While this is a...

Buzzwords like AI and machine learning tend to grab the attention of C-suite leaders, but the most exciting tool in the digital transformation toolbox is RPA, robotic process automation. Anthony Macciola defines RPA, discusses the realities of machine learning and...

The Case for a Risk-Based Approach New SEC rulings on cybersecurity disclosures for public companies went into effect just a month ago, acknowledging the rapidly evolving nature of cybersecurity threats and the increasing sophistication of attacks, including the use of stolen credentials,...