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How Data Governance Protects Sensitive Data

erwin

How can companies protect their enterprise data assets, while also ensuring their availability to stewards and consumers while minimizing costs and meeting data privacy requirements? Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. As indicated in the paragraph quoted above, the company collected some very sensitive personal information.

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A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang

Krebs on Security

. “We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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GDPR personal data explained

Collibra

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 25, 2018, requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of European Union (EU) citizens, for transactions that occur within EU Member States. The GDPR also regulates the exportation of personal data outside the EU. Location data .