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Top 3 Black Friday 2019 scams to avoid

IT Governance

Besides the traumatic experience for some retail employees and those injured in shop-floor brawls, Black Friday is also a time in which many of us are caught out by scams, with cyber criminals taking advantage of customers desperate for a bargain. But the day isn’t all fun and bargains. Why Black Friday is primetime for cyber crime.

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Top 3 Black Friday 2020 scams to avoid

IT Governance

In this blog, we look at some of the scams you should look out for and what you can do to protect yourself. But in the US, Black Friday refers to the discounts that retailers offer the day after Thanksgiving – and thanks to the rise in online shopping (which will be even more prominent this year with COVID-19), it has become a global custom.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2019 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) in New York City from August 3 to 6, 2019. The amended regulation took effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity products and will become effective on February 1, 2020, for life insurance products.

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Top 3 Black Friday scams to avoid in 2021

IT Governance

The only way to protect yourself is to make a habit of looking for signs of bogus websites – like URLs that look slightly off (annazon.co.uk, with two ‘n’s for example) and those that don’t have a lock symbol on the left side of the address bar. A version of this blog was originally published on 27 November 2019. What do you do?

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts – UK Offers Legal Clarity

Data Matters

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement). 7 For example, of the type hypothesized by Ian Grigg (i.e., 10 “EBA reports on crypto-assets,” January 9, 2019.