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

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. million consumers between October 2019 and March 2023. Cerebral disclosed that its breach impacted nearly 3.2

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How Data Governance Protects Sensitive Data

erwin

With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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Data management sets the next phase of zero-trust

Collibra

Nowadays zero-trust is being recognized as a principle and a best practice that can be applied to broad aspects of security, accelerated by industry’s innovations. It sets out clear visions and specific actions around the five pillars of security: identity, devices, networks, application & workloads, and data.

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Historic Charges: First Enforcement Action Filed by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

Data Matters

The Regulation requires that Covered Entities establish and maintain a cybersecurity program designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its information systems and its customers’ NPI as defined in 23 NYCRR §§ 500.01(e) e) and 500.01(g), g), respectively. In May 2019, FAST contained over 850 million documents.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Cloud storage security issues refer to the operational and functional challenges that organizations and consumers encounter when storing data in the cloud. Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data.

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

IoT security is where endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) meet the challenges of a rapidly expanding edge computing infrastructure. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are the smart consumer and business systems powering the homes, factories, and enterprise processes of tomorrow.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress ), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30.

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