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How FIDO 2 authentication can help achieve regulatory compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The retail sector, especially, is a lucrative target for credential stuffing attacks , resulting in billions lost every year. One of the great benefits of FIDO2 is that it is not susceptible to phishing, man-in-the-middle and other attacks targeting user credentials. Compliance with GDPR and CCPA. Compliance with PSD2.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. Far-reaching regulations like Europe’s GDPR levy steep fines on organizations that fail to safeguard sensitive information. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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Shopping safely over Black Friday and Cyber Monday

IT Governance

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost upon us, kickstarting what retailers hope will be a successful trading period. However, retailers offering both a physical and digital presence stand to gain the most, as the omnichannel approach is favoured by 69% of UK-based survey respondents.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

University of Utah Health notifies patients of phishing attack (unknown). Phishing scam targets German coronavirus task force (100+). com impersonated in year-long phishing attack (unknown). Australian activewear retailer In Sport infected with ransomware (unknown). Data breaches.

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Radisson Rewards programme breached

IT Governance

It also advised members to be aware of phishing emails: You should also be aware that third parties may claim to be Radisson Rewards and attempt to gather personal information by deception (known as ‘phishing’) […] Radisson Rewards will not ask for your password or user information to be provided in an e-mail.

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Getting #BreachReady: prepare for the worst, hope for the best

IT Governance

The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is very much alive and kicking. Since its coming into force in May, the EU-wide GDPR has led to an increase in data breach reporting, as the requirement is for organisations to notify the ICO of a breach within 72 hours of becoming aware of it.

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

million for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The NHS was criticised for signing a deal with Amazon that allowed patients to access their health information via its Alexa voice assistant – potentially granting the online retail giant access to vast amounts of sensitive personal data.