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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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A zero-day exploit for Log4j Java library could have a tsunami impact on IT giants

Security Affairs

Query our API for "tags=CVE-2021-44228" for source IP addresses and other IOCs. We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. Apache addressed the issue with the release of a Log4j release candidate version (2.15.0-rc1),

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

Data Protection Report

As part of the order, the company agreed to post “clearly and conspicuously” on its websites and apps for the next two years: Between October 2019 and [date], we shared the personal of information of consumers visiting our website and apps with other companies without their permission. pushing back on indefinite retention of information.

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Keep Your Business Data Safe and Secure With Onehub

OneHub

In a 2020 report, IBM revealed that the average cost of a data breach is $3.84 That’s a devastating price tag for many companies. In addition to the monetary losses, compromised data can also erase valuable information or damage your company’s reputation with customers.

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California Consumer Privacy Act: GDPR-like definition of personal information

Data Protection Report

The CCPA defines “[p]ersonal information” as any information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” Reexamine the company’s methods for creating de-identified or anonymous sets of data.

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