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Ireland: DPC Annual Report 2020: Enforcement & Transfers Dominate Agenda

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In its second full year overseeing and regulating the GDPR in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission ( DPC ) has published its 2020 Annual Report , highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large scale inquiries and decisions of 2020. 90% of the recorded breach cases were concluded in 2020. Enforcement.

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2020 in review: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our cyber security review of 2020, in which we look back at the biggest stories from July to December. Later in the year, educational institutes and non-profits across the UK, the US and Canada announced disruption after a third-party software provider, Blackbaud, was attacked. million (about £2.9

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Universities across the UK and North America confirm cyber attack

IT Governance

Blackbaud, which provides education administration, fundraising and financial management software, was infected with ransomware, giving cyber criminals access to a wealth of sensitive information. At least eight educational institutions in the US and Canada were also affected, as well as several charities on both sides of the Atlantic.

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UK ICO Publishes First Two Reports from its Data Protection Sandbox Pilot

Hunton Privacy

On July 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published the first two reports of its Data Protection Regulatory Sandbox Beta phase (the “Beta phase”) involving projects by Jisc (a not-for-profit organization serving the higher and further education and skills sectors) and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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Top 10 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave.

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Analysing Data Breaches Caused by Human Error

IT Governance

Also note that this blog only accounts for the data from 2020–2022, because these are the only years the ICO has released its full data set on. According to the ICO’s data from 2020–2022, the answer is 34% – or 33.6%, to be more exact. At the time of writing, the data set starts in Q2 2019 and goes up to Q2 2023.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record. Evolving privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) mean ongoing headaches for cybersecurity, compliance and risk management teams.