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Data Privacy Day: Three ways to keep consumer data secure

CyberSecurity Insiders

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on the 28 th of January. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness about how businesses and individuals can promote the implementation of privacy and data protection best practices. .

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6 Business functions that will benefit from cybersecurity automation

CyberSecurity Insiders

For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Automating tasks such as data collection and log and asset management can make security operations more efficient by freeing up skilled employees to work on high-level tasks that require a human touch. Data privacy.

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How your business can benefit from Cybersecurity automation

CyberSecurity Insiders

For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Automating tasks such as data collection and log and asset management can make security operations more efficient by freeing up skilled employees to work on high-level tasks that require a human touch. Data privacy.

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Getting Started: A Beginner’s Guide for Improving Privacy

Security Boulevard

Use a privacy-oriented browser Which privacy-oriented browser should you use? Use a secure (encrypted) email provider Which secure email provider should you use? Avoid using popular yet privacy invasive email service providers 3. Avoid using Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome Understanding “Incognito Mode” 2.

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How Companies Need to Treat User Data and Manage Their Partners

Security Affairs

Most of them relate to safeguarding data from misuse and reassuring that all procedures abide by the active regulations. Data Storage: Evaluates the risks around the vendor’s data storage and data retention capabilities to understand how effective they are in keeping sensitive data safe and secure.

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Top 10 Cloud Privacy Recommendations for Consumers

McAfee

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. This may give them the right, or at least enough rights in their own mind, to sell your data to data brokers.

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What happened in privacy in 2022

Malwarebytes

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.