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World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Exercising the principle of least privilege is always recommended: every user, app, program, and device should be able to access only the areas and data that are necessary for their function.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

Rick Snyder, who is about to leave office and can point to significant strides Michigan has made ‘reinventing’ its economy under his watch. I just wanted to be proactive about it,” he told me. Participants competed in exercises to detect improvised explosive devises targeting semi-trucks and military vehicles.

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2018 Global Data Regulations & Compliance Heat Up – Are you Ready?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Over in the APAC region, South Korea has had a regulation in place since 2011. My colleague Vikram Ramesh blogs more about Australia’s privacy amendment act here. Thales’ Jim DeLorenzo explains more about POPI in this blog post. Jim DeLorenzo also blogs about DEFCON 658 here.

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Authorities in Austria and Switzerland Rule on Google Street View

Hunton Privacy

On April 21, 2011, the Austrian Data Protection Commission (“Austrian DPA”) published its decision allowing Google to register its Google Street View application on the Austrian DPA’s data processing register. Austrian DPA Gives Green Light Subject to Conditions. Swiss Court Decision Confirms Swiss DPA’s Opinion.

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Engineering Secure Systems

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, developing complex software systems with large teams is still a fallible, expensive and inconsistent exercise. This means the software industry needs to adopt better tools and processes for communicating about and understanding the systems they build. Model-Based Systems Engineering.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

It is intended to give consumers more transparency regarding and control over their data and establishes highly detailed requirements for what companies that collect personal data about California residents must disclose. . It also encompasses “inferences drawn from any [personal information] … to create a profile about a consumer.…”.

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Weekly podcast: myPersonality, train Wi-Fi and Kaspersky Lab

IT Governance

He also said that Facebook had been aware of the myPersonality project for a long time, even holding meetings with him and his collaborator Michal Kosinsky from 2011 onwards. If so, you might be interested in a recent blog post by Ken Munro of Pen Test Partners about vulnerabilities in passenger networks.