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Ireland: Large-scale inquiries progress as DPC budget and staff numbers ramp up

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Primary areas of focus for the DPC in 2021 included the safeguarding of children’s data protection rights, progressing ongoing large-scale inquires and prioritising responding to complaints which have raised issues of substance, with a data subject centric approach to resolution. Financial Services Sector Focus.

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The compliance challenges of hybrid working

IT Governance

For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. Preventing data breaches. Monitoring software is therefore essential to ensure that data breaches are spotted promptly and to give your organisation the opportunity to respond. Looking for more advice?

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Why organizations need to prioritize a PQC-readiness lab

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 2023 Thales Data Threat Report found that 62% of organizations now have at least 5 key management systems as a result of cloud implementations, making it extremely complex to update to PQC. Keys are are what locks and unlocks the secure algorithms by programs and applications that need access to the secure data.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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The Privacy Officers’ New Year’s Resolutions

Data Protection Report

The New York State Department for Financial Services regulations require covered entities to have appropriate record retention policies and procedures and the CCPA provides an extra incentive to implement proper information governance to minimise the costs data access requests. In the U.S., Overwhelmed at the prospect?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly 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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The Privacy Officers’ New Year’s Resolutions

Data Protection Report

The New York State Department for Financial Services regulations require covered entities to have appropriate record retention policies and procedures and the CCPA provides an extra incentive to implement proper information governance to minimise the costs data access requests. In the U.S., Overwhelmed at the prospect?

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