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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government

CyberSecurity Insiders

In the year 2013, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed to the world that his agency was monitoring every activity of American populace along with some prominent personalities and leaders of the world. The post Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Celebrate Data Privacy Day with SiteLock

SiteLock

With the Target data breach and its endless repercussions still on most people’s minds, next week’s Data Privacy Day (January 28th) is well-timed to pause and think about data privacy and what it means to your business and customers. Congress declared the very first National Data Privacy Day.

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UK NHS to share data causing data privacy concerns among patients

CyberSecurity Insiders

Note- In the year 2013, NHS was involved in a similar data-sharing program called ‘Care Data’ where all the patient data belonging to the Govt backed healthcare services provide was being stored in a central repository. However, the procedure was abandoned in 2016 due to privacy concerns.

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Silent Safeguards – The Essence of ISO 27001 Controls

Heimadal Security

ISO 27001, sometimes referred to as ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard that addresses organizational information security.

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Data Privacy and the Cybercrime Economy

SiteLock

For example, in a study just published by Russian security firm Kaspersky , the number two target for phishing attacks around the world in 2013 was the financial community. And it’s that reality that’s going to make ensuring data privacy and preventing security breaches more costly. That’s just where you start.

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Twitter to pay $150m penalty for user data protection failure

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to the order, Twitter which is soon going into the hands of Tesla Chief Elon Musk failed to protect its user info between 2013 to 2019 and was giving false security that it has all measures in place to protect the information that is not for public view.