Data Protector

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Two years ago I blogged about an unsettling experience I had with Apollo, a firm that had confused me as to what they were really all about. Since then, I’ve had a number of emails from people who have had similar experiences. Today, I’m reprinting (most of) the most recent one – which comments about an organisation called Apollo-Transitions. Surely, this is not the same company as the Apollo company I had encountered?

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Digital platforms that are fit for today's specific business purpose are essentially far more agile, open and flexible versions of the old proprietary enterprise suites

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PerezBox

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

On November 8th, 2016, Google introduced a new feature to Chrome that would blacklist repeat offenders. Once Safe Browsing has designated a site as a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will. Read More. The post Google Introduces new Repeat Offender Blacklist appeared first on PerezBox.

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

At the 2016 Information Governance Conference , I presented on "How to Plan a Successful Information Management Solution Implementation". Get my slide deck from SlideShare. Related: Check out my Reflections on the 2016 InfoGovCon. Summary Start with information strategy, architecture, and governance. Recruit an executive champion and cross-departmental partners.

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Imperial Violet

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In July my colleague, Matt Braithwaite, announced that Chrome and Google would be experimenting with a post-quantum key-agreement primitive in TLS. One should read the original announcement for details, but we had two goals for this experiment: Firstly we wanted to direct cryptoanalytic attention at the family of Ring Learning-with-Errors (RLWE) problems.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This post has been updated. . On November 10, 2016, the Court of Appeal for Moscow’s Taginsky District upheld an August 2016 decision by the district’s lower court that LinkedIn had violated Russian data protection laws. Access to the professional networking site is now set to be blocked across Russia. The court’s decision, which followed a complaint from the Russian data protection regulator, Roskomnadzor, found that LinkedIn violated Russian data protection law on two counts: not storing data

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

HCL's 'Great Digital Leap Forward' will keep astute client partners ahead of US offshoring BPO political protectionism

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There’s a really interesting podcast with Robert Hurlbut Chris Romeo and Tony UcedaVelez on the PASTA approach to threat modeling. The whole podcast is interesting, especially hearing Chris and Tony discuss how an organization went from STRIDE to CAPEC and back again. There’s a section where they discuss the idea of “think like an attacker,” and Chris brings up some of what I’ve written (“ ‘Think Like an Attacker’ is an opt-in mistake.”) I th

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This week is Explore Your Archive week – a brilliant opportunity to exhibit the unique potential of archives to excite and intrigue people, bring communities together, and share amazing stories. In celebration of Explore Your Archive week, which is supported by the The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association (ARA), we thought it would be interesting to share our pick of Archives that are pioneering the way in preserving digital content for use by future generations, as well as

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CGI

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sécurité infonuagique et atteinte d’objectifs de conformité – Leçons apprises*. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Mon, 11/21/2016 - 05:32. Lorsque de l’information ou des applications sont désignées comme essentielles, une organisation devrait immédiatement comprendre que ces systèmes exigent les plus hauts degrés de sécurité, et donc d’importants investissements pour les protéger contre les attaques malveillantes.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

On November 16, 2016, the UK Investigatory Powers Bill (the “Bill”) was approved by the UK House of Lords. Following ratification of the Bill by Royal Assent, which is expected before the end of 2016, the Bill will officially become law in the UK. The draft of the Bill has sparked controversy, as it will hand significant and wide-ranging powers to state surveillance agencies, and has been strongly criticized by some privacy and human rights advocacy groups. .

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Attensa

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Despite large annual expenditures for content few organizations have a way to measure how people engage and use information from paid or free sources. This turns budgeting and allocation into a SWAG exercise. In today’s data-driven world that seems broken. . There are many reasons that tracking the use of acquired content or assigning value to the work product of libraries and information centers is difficult.

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Getting Information Done

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

How to Get Your Information Governance Projects Funded One of the big challenges for information governance professionals is getting buy-in from business stakeholders and sponsors for funding projects. Often, there is a perceived poor return on investment (ROI) that creates a lack of urgency or the impetus to move forward. Frequently, this is a result of projects being positioned as compliance or workplace efficiency initiatives.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In September, we shared the news that for its 50th year, the people of Gävle paid an extra $100,000 to secure the goat. Sadly, it seems to have not helped. Today, the goat tweeted: Oh no, such a short amount of time with you my friends. The obvious lesson is that the Swedes have a ransomware problem, and the goat should stop clicking on links in email.

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RFID Global Solution, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Tech | Tech News Nov 14, 2016 – There’s nothing like lost luggage to put a damper on the holiday travel season, but a simple piece of technology being added to some luggage tags could help limit the problem. Just in time for the travel rush, Delta is adding Radio Frequency Identification chips, also known as RFID, to paper baggage tags. For an up-close look, tune in tonight at 6:30 p.m. to NBC Nightly News.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Digital-born firms from telecoms are key drivers of the transformation of the energy system. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Fri, 11/11/2016 - 02:10. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the value digital technologies bring to their lives. Whether it’s installing an intelligent thermostat in their homes that tracks their whereabouts and adjusts the temperature accordingly, or a smart speaker that orders them a cab, consumers are becoming extremely technology savvy and are keen to adopt new technolog

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On November 19, 2016, the French government enacted a bill creating a legal basis for class actions against data controllers and processors resulting from data protection violations. The bill, which aims to facilitate access to justice for French citizens, establishes a general class action regime and includes specific provisions regarding data protection violations.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Germany to audit 500 companies The German data protection authorities have announced today that they have chosen 500 companies throughout […].

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Overview A confluence of two risky design choices, combined with various implementation issues, makes drive-by downloads possible with Google Chrome on Fedora. In total, with the risky design choices first, the issues are: Chrome will auto download files to a user’s desktop with no confirmation. Fedora’s “tracker” software will auto crawl downloaded files to index them, including media files.

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Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Over the past several years, I have reviewed DB2 for z/OS systems running at quite a few client sites. Part of the analysis work I do in performing these reviews involves looking over a DB2 subsystem's DSNZPARM values (or ZPARMs, for short -- the parameters through which the set-up of a DB2 system is largely specified). I have seen that certain ZPARM parameters are very regularly set to values that are not ideal.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Data Protector

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In light of the recent US elections, paving the way for a Trump presidency in 2017, why should companies take the risk of adopting the Privacy Shield as a means of legitimising EU/US transfers? Frankly, I wouldn't bother. Not until the latest set of legal challenges has been resolved, anyway. Why? Well, a recent lunch with a chum who is closer to the minds of the policy-making and legal elites within the EU reminded me of the deep cultural divide that exists inside the Brussels bubble.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Why disability confidence is important to business. p.butler@cgi.com. Thu, 11/10/2016 - 07:07. I was very honoured this week to receive the Executive Disability Champion award for my commitment to disability in business at the 2016 Disability-Smart Awards. It’s a subject I feel very passionate about and feel humbled to have received such recognition.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

On November 23, 2016, Bloomberg BNA reported that the Hague Administrative Court in the Netherlands upheld a decision by the Dutch Data Protection Authority that WhatsApp was in breach of the Dutch Data Protection Act (the “Act”) on account of its alleged failure to identify a representative within the country responsible for compliance with the Act, despite the processing of personal data of Dutch WhatsApp users on Dutch smartphones.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In 2013, President Obama issued Executive Order 13636 and directed the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology […].

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Overview Recently (Nov 21st, 2016), I published an 0day exploit against the gstreamer FLIC decoder, here on my blog. The response time from gstreamer upstream was impressive: a patch in 1 day or so that fixed not only the immediate issue but also some similar bugs in other functions in the decoder. More on those other bugs in another post. Here is the git commit.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

[ Dec 15 : Note that there are 4 updates to the post with additional links after writing.]. The Green Party is driving a set of recounts that might change the outcome in one or more swing states. Simultaneously, there is a growing movement to ask the Electoral College to choose a candidate other than Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

On November 14, 2016, Lincoln Financial Securities Corp. (“LFS”), a subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, entered into a settlement (the “Settlement”) with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), requiring LFS to pay a $650,000 fine and implement stronger cybersecurity protocols following a 2012 hack into its cloud-based server. In 2012, hackers with foreign IP addresses accessed LFS’s cloud server and stole confidential records of approximately 5,400 customers.

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