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The UK’s ICO issues a monetary penalty notice to professional services firm after ransomware attack

Data Protection Report

On 10 March 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) issued a monetary penalty notice to a professional services firm (the Firm ) to the tune of £98,000 for a breach of Article 5(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ). The Firm did not use MFA for remote access to its system.

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Germany: Berlin data protection authority imposes EUR 14.5 million fine for “data cemetery”

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Deutsche Wohnen SE is a real estate company which was accused of having used an archiving system for the storage of personal data of tenants which did not allow for the erasure of data that was no longer necessary. If the 4% category had been applied the maximum fines would have been about EUR 57 million in the case at hand.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

The previous article –Part 2 of this 3-part series – discussed DT by imagining how the “art of the possible” can help define the end state of the DT journey. Thus, common tools and techniques are risk matrices, risk registers, risk logs, risk breakdown structures, risk categories, Monte Carlo simulations, and sensitivity analyses.

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Mitigating Third Party Risks Under GDPR

AIIM

Under Article 28 of the General Data Protection Regulation controllers must only appoint processors who can provide “sufficient guarantees” to meet the requirements of the GDPR. Data Breach notification obligations under Article 33 of GDPR. Often organizations simply do not have visibility to their information holdings.

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CCPA In-Depth Series: Draft Attorney General Regulations on Consumer Requests

Data Matters

The regulations further states that businesses that store personal information on archived or backup systems are allowed to extend the time by which they must respond to deletion requests with respect to such data until the archived or backup system is next accessed or used.). Security Concerns. Right to Opt-Out of Sale.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools.

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New CNIL €400,000 fine for data security breaches and non-compliance with data retention period under the GDPR

Data Protection Report

The issue giving rise to the financial penalty was a security breach relating to the company’s website notified by a user to the CNIL on 12 August 2018. According to SERGIC, the website’s security breach could have impacted around 29,440 users.

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