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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 Patches were rushed out , but many.

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German DSK Issues GDPR Fining Methodology Guidelines

Data Matters

Instead, they have been taking an aggressive approach to GDPR non-compliance in relation to companies of varying degrees of size and a broad range of industries, including enforcing in situations where there has been no actual loss of personal data ( e.g. in the case of a data breach) or harm to individuals.

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German DSK Issues GDPR Fining Methodology Guidelines

Data Matters

Instead, they have been taking an aggressive approach to GDPR non-compliance in relation to companies of varying degrees of size and a broad range of industries, including enforcing in situations where there has been no actual loss of personal data ( e.g. in the case of a data breach) or harm to individuals.

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Treating cybersecurity like workplace safety

CGI

When I worked with a major global chemical manufacturer, every meeting began with a PowerPoint presentation on safety, highlighting the importance of the topic. Not unlike workplace accidents, the cost of a cyber breach is expensive to say the least. Today, failing to ensure the safety of employees would be unthinkable.

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Treating cybersecurity like workplace safety

CGI

When I worked with a major global chemical manufacturer, every meeting began with a PowerPoint presentation on safety, highlighting the importance of the topic. Not unlike workplace accidents, the cost of a cyber breach is expensive to say the least. Today, failing to ensure the safety of employees would be unthinkable.

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The Results Are in: Modest Changes to CCPA Await the Governor’s Signature

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The temporary delay of full CCPA applicability was inserted to encourage the legislature to consider an employee privacy bill in 2020, not to exclude employee data from California privacy law entirely. AB-874 clarifies that deidentified and aggregate data are not within the definition of personal information.

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