The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is a mega-summit as The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, and plays an important role in shaping and strengthening global architecture and governance on all major international economic issues. San Jose, Calif.,

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Information Governance Perspectives

MAY 10, 2020

In May of 2020 I was honored to speak at the MERv conference with John Frost of Box on the topic of Using Information Governance with a Privacy Compliance Plan as the Fulcrum for Data Privacy and Continuous Compliance. Privacy makes data governance ethical and tangible, and compliance leaders understand that.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S. The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its Pegasus spyware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. At least three major industry groups are working to counter the latest cyber threats and scams.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The results are in, and California voters have approved the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) which was listed on the ballot as Proposition 24. Consumers will also have opt-out rights relating to the use of their personal information in automated decision-making, including consumer profiling.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This blogpost summarises our recent webinar: “ An urgent message from Berlin: The importance of record retention in privacy and cybersecurity ”. In 2019, we saw regulators put a renewed focus on how long businesses retain personal information. How do you build an effective information governance program?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Making compliance easy with our Cloud-based solution CyberComply is a Cloud-based, end-to-end solution that simplifies compliance with a range of cyber security and data privacy standards and laws, including ISO 27001 , the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and more. Could you tell us a bit about what you do for the Group?

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 26, 2023

On 19 June 2023, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO ) published guidance on privacy enhancing technologies (or PETs) (the Guidance ). The Guidance sits alongside the ICO’s recommendation that organisations should, if they haven’t already, start using PETs to share personal data safely, securely and anonymously.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

A financially motivated group named GhostR claims the theft of a sensitive database from World-Check and threatens to publish it. World-Check is currently owned by LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group). Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Moreover, there seems to be momentum developing for a more comprehensive US Federal Privacy initiative consistent with GDPR. The current US data privacy regime is somewhat fragmented and sectoral in nature and is perceived to be an impediment to competing in the digital economy. Content Analytics (Privacy Information Management).

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Incident details: The Russian hacking group APT28 has been targeting a range of unspecified French organisations for the past two years, according to an ANSSI report. Security incident report Date of breach: 29 September 2023 (but report updated on 27 October 2023). Records breached: 12,347,297 medical records (7 TB).

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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2024

At least once a week, we sit down with an expert from within the Group to get their insights on a technical topic or business area. Privacy consultant Mark answers all these questions and more in this interview. How can organisations monitor staff while remaining compliant with privacy laws?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. According to databreaches.net , the group exfiltrated tenant information, service management information, financial data, business data, property data, employee data and sensitive business information.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 100 and government agencies worldwide, has compiled a comprehensive forecast outlining the imminent threats and novel security challenges anticipated in the upcoming year. Cybersecurity company Resecurity has published the 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

ransomware attack on the Italian cloud service provider Westpole disrupted multiple services of local and government organizations and municipalities. The incident impacted a Westpole’s customer company named PA Digitale which offers its services to various local and government organizations that rely on its platform Urbi.

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Data Matters

JULY 8, 2019

Ensuring that a company is properly prepared for and responds to privacy and cyber security threats is a key corporate governance responsibility for directors and senior officers. Engage in information threat sharing to anticipate general and industry specific threats.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. The Thallium APT group aimed at stealing sensitive accounts from Microsoft accounts. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

On October 22, 2019, the drafting group of China’s National Information Security Standardization Technology Committee (“NISSTC”) released a third set of draft amendments to the Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification (GB/T 35273 – 2017) (the “Updated Draft Specification”).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Each of us have a responsibility to embrace best privacy and security practices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

Navigating the EU-US Data Protection Framework sparsh Thu, 01/11/2024 - 05:26 On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision regarding the Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). This follows the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield, by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 16 July 2020.

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IT Governance

APRIL 18, 2023

Data minimisation is a key part of information security and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in particular. Its principles are at the heart of effective data protection practices, and are intended to prevent privacy breaches and minimise the damage when security incidents occur. What is data minimisation?

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 2, 2020

On November 25, 2020, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on European Data Governance (the “Data Governance Act”). The Data Governance Act is part of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European Strategy for Data , which is aimed at putting the EU at the forefront of the data empowered society.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 2, 2018

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. As we begin this New Year, here is list of the top 10 privacy and cybersecurity issues for 2018: EU GDPR.

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IT Governance

APRIL 24, 2024

Previously , I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sophie Sayer, our Channel Sales Director, to talk about the IT Governance partner programme and partner event on 9 April 2024. Bridget Kenyon’s keynote on AI and its challenges for information security was particularly illuminating and engaging.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The UK government’s Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2021 report estimates that approximately 680,000 UK businesses (50% of those surveyed) have a basic skills gap. Information security is a broader category that protects all information assets, whether in hard copy or digital form.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2019

electric utilities and government agencies have been hacked, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal. government has linked the hackers to a Russian state-sponsored group, sometimes called Dragonfly or Energetic Bear. Hundreds of contractors and subcontractors with connections to U.S.

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IT Governance

MAY 15, 2024

Physical access control, physical security monitoring, CCTV, and more When we hear the term ‘information security’ – or, for that matter, ‘ISO 27001’ – our thoughts usually turn straight to cyber security. However, physical security is also an important aspect of information and data security.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

Aside from its core business competency — checking to make sure the property at issue in any real estate transaction is unencumbered by any liens or other legal claims against it — First American basically has one job: Protect the privacy and security of all these documents. “That’s a high-risk vulnerability.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Specifically, the law requires the Secretary of the Government Operations Agency to convene a blockchain working group prior to July 1, 2019. Under the new law, “blockchain” means “a mathematically secured, chronological and decentralized ledger or database.”

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This blogpost summarises our recent webinar: “ An urgent message from Berlin: The importance of record retention in privacy and cybersecurity ”. In 2019, we saw regulators put a renewed focus on how long businesses retain personal information. How do you build an effective information governance program?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Backed by Japanese telecom giant NTT Group , this new facility instantly jumped into the vanguard of basic research already underway that will eventually enable the routine use of quantum computers, which, in turn, will open the door to things like driverless cars and Star Trekkian medical treatments. billion annually for R&D projects.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 10, 2018

On January 9, 2018, the FTC issued a paper recapping the key takeaways from the FTC’s and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s June 2017 workshop on privacy and security issues involving connected cars. The workshop featured representatives from consumer groups, industry, government and academia.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A new shocking revelation comes from the disputed from NSO Group and Facebook, NSO CEO claims Facebook tried to buy an Apple spying software in 2017. Reading this post you could have a better idea of the value of your privacy. According to an extraordinary court filing from NSO Group in an ongoing lawsuit. ” Who will win?

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Data Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

Other permitted mechanisms include governmental security review and standard contractual clauses to be issued by Chinese government. However, to date, there have been no clear rules on the criteria and procedures for obtaining the PIPL certification. all other existing statutory rights under PIPL.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. A data controller is any organization, group, or person that collects personal data and determines how it is used. A data processor is any organization or group that conducts data processing activities.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

In the final days of February, there were a flurry of security incidents related, either directly or indirectly, to the Ukraine conflict. First, Russia targeted banks and government departments, then Ukraine hit back, attacking the Moscow stock exchange.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The BORN funded by the government of Ontario disclosed a data breach that impacts some 3.4 BORN Ontario hired cybersecurity experts to mitigate the threat, secure its infrastructure, and investigate the scope of the incident. Nuance launched an investigation into the incident with the help of cyber security experts and a law firm.

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