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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

A data controller is any organization, group, or person that collects personal data and determines how it is used. Think: an online retailer that stores customers’ email addresses to send order updates. GDPR heavily encourages encryption and pseudonymization, so organizations may want to implement these controls in particular.

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Asymmetric encryption may require too much processing power for certain devices, making symmetric keys the only option.

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BEST PRACTICES: How to protect yourself from the enduring scourge of malvertising

The Last Watchdog

If you visit a large retail website, you may encounter 100 or 150 third party companies that get access to your computing device. In yet another recent cutting-edge attack, cybercriminals targeted smaller online retailers with stealthy malware, dubbed CartThief , designed to exploit websites using the open-source Magento ecommerce platform.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q1 2023

IT Governance

Ransomware soared in popularity at the end of the last decade, with a relatively simple method: attackers would infect organisations’ systems with malware that would worm through their systems encrypting data. With these attacks, the criminal hackers don’t simply encrypt organisations’ systems and demand money for the safe return of the data.

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Catches of the month: Phishing scams for November 2021

IT Governance

The US-based retailer Next Level Apparel announced last month that it had fallen victim to a phishing scam that compromised an array of sensitive details. You would typically expect to see payment card details and health records either segregated in a database that’s available only to approved personnel, or else encrypted within the database.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. I will focus on how to ensure the devices connected to your network are legitimate and who they say they are.

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