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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

Related: Will GDPR usher in new age of privacy? Under GDPR, Europe has the authority to fine organizations up to 4 percent of their annual global revenue if they violate any European citizen’s privacy rights, for example, by failing to secure their personal data. million, on average.

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No.

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UK: Supreme Court judgment in Morrisons – employer not vicariously liable for data breach

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In November 2013, an aggrieved Morrisons employee, Andrew Skelton, downloaded payroll data he was entrusted with at work onto a personal USB stick. The court declined to specifically consider the General Data Protection Regulation, (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”). 1 WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. million payment cards and 1.2

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Best SIEM Tools & Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a crucial enterprise technology that ties the stack of cybersecurity systems together to assess threats and manage risks. The IBM Security QRadar Security Information and Event Management is an enterprise favorite that’s adapted with the evolution of the SIEM market.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The new right to be forgotten will allow children to enjoy their childhood without having every personal event, achievement, failure, antic or prank that they posted online to be digitally recorded for ever more. Of course, as new rights like this are created, the Bill will ensure that they cannot be taken too far.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. pic.twitter.com/dQiuQim3da — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 12, 2023 As if to make the point, I just checked the latest stats and last week we did 301.6M