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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2022: 408 Million Breached Records

IT Governance

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,063 security incidents in 2022, which accounted for 480,014,323 breached records. That represents an 14.8%

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Vice Society ransomware gang adds the Italian City of Palermo to its data leak site

Security Affairs

In response to the security breach, the IT infrastructure of the city was shut down. “An order of priority was then drawn up for the reactivation of the services and platforms that are ordinarily managed through the information systems. The attack took place on June 02 and the outage caused severe problems to the citizens.

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A 6-step guide to surviving data breaches

IT Governance

Follow our advice to successfully manage risks and respond to a variety of information security incidents. Any day during which you find out that you’ve been breached will be bad. They can do this either by email or telephone, but it’s not as simple as saying “we’ve been breached”. Assess the affected data.

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France: The CNIL publishes a practical guide on Data Protection Officers

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 16 November 2021, the French data protection supervisory authority (the “CNIL”) published a practical guide (“Guide”) on Data Protection Officers (“DPOs”). Among the organizations that have designated a DPO, the most represented sectors are, unsurprisingly, the public administration, education and health sectors.

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California Privacy Law Overhaul – Proposition 24 Passes

Data Matters

Third, it creates a new category of businesses: those that voluntarily agree to be subject to the CCPA. Entities must annually buy sell, or share personal information of 100,000 consumers, not 50,000 as under the CCPA, to qualify as a business under the second prong of the test. New Rights for Sensitive Personal Information.

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Don’t gift cyber attackers access to your organisation this Christmas

IT Governance

Some are quick fixes that you can sort out before you go away for the holidays, whereas other require a refined, systematic approach to information security. A simpler and more secure technique is to create a mnemonic or cipher, such as taking the first character from each word of a sentence. Weak passwords.

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