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Weekly podcast: ICO GDPR campaign, Gwent Police, Binance and MediaGet

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the ICO’s new GDPR campaign for micro businesses, a potential data breach at Gwent Police, a US$250,000 reward from Binance and Windows Defender stops a massive malware campaign. If you need more guidance on GDPR compliance for your micro business, you can find a host of help at itgovernance.co.uk/gdpr.

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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Most human communication is via unstructured data; it’s messy and doesn’t fit into analytical algorithms. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. Ransomware target.

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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Gartner reported that 36% plan to increase spending on AI and machine learning , and 85% want to implement data-mining supported by machine learning until 2024. It also established a European cyber security certification framework for information and communications technology products and services.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Known records breached Up to 3,806 organisations with DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) servers Source (New) Healthcare Unknown Unknown >59 million Akumin Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 5 TB AMCO Proteins Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 4 TB Norton Healthcare Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 2.5

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NEW TECH: Can MPC — Multi Party Computation — disrupt encryption, boost cloud commerce?

The Last Watchdog

When buying or trading Bitcoin, or any other crypto currency, certificates and keys come into play, authenticating and encrypting communications between any two parties. This would comply with data privacy regulations, like Europe’s GDPR and California’s CPPA. And it would open up new areas of data mining.

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Selling and utilising personal data in an insolvency situation

Data Protection Report

But this is a tricky area to navigate, particularly following the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), since both the ICO and the FCA have started to pay more attention to this area. For many of these businesses the one asset that will undoubtedly retain value, despite the pandemic, will be their customer database. Can this be done?

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Guest Post: France’s Digital Republic Act Strengthens Privacy Safeguards

IGI

The law expands the scope and authority of the 1978 French Data Protection Act and brings the country to the foreground of modernizing the legal framework of the information economy ahead of the 2018 implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law has also added several new individual rights.

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