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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months.

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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

It is essential that your organization’s records retention schedule is compliant with the data protection requirements in the jurisdictions where your organization operates. Introduction to Data Protection Laws. Personal data protection requirements may be issued by federal, state (provincial), or local governments.

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Risk Management under the DORA Regulation

IT Governance

The financial sector is quite heavily regulated, and involves a lot of confidential data. You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. In fact, in 2020–2022, the financial sector was the second-most attacked sector, topped only by the retail and manufacturing sector.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. and foreign government agencies. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). All rights reserved.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Without a comprehensive network segmentation or microsegmentation policy, malicious actors can also move laterally within your organization’s network, infect endpoints and servers, and demand a ransom for access to your data. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. Screenshot example. Zero Trust.

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EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Passes Its Third Annual Review

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

continues to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred under the Privacy Shield from the EU to participating companies in the U.S. On 12 July 2016, the European Commission issued its adequacy decision concerning the Privacy Shield framework for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S.

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California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead – The Interplay Between the CCPA and Financial Institutions

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In such situations, a financial institution must comply with a wide array of CCPA obligations, including requirements to make certain disclosures to consumers and to provide certain rights to consumers, such as the right to stop “sales” of their personal information and the right to access data that a business has collected about them.

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