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Many might argue that people have reached their data-breach news saturation point, yet guarding the user data is more important than ever amidst the implementation of stringent data regulations. Businesses can’t just get away with announcing their data breach; they need to pay fines that can amount up to almost 4% of their annual turnover […]

Thanks to the growing cases of data breaches around the globe, data privacy laws have become a hot topic in any data security conversation. Whether in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or in the soon to be implemented California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), protection of consumer data has become a key area of […]

More privacy regulations are coming—that much is clear. In the U.S., we hear from the states that they do not want to sit idly by while the federal government procrastinates on passing a comprehensive regulation. Meanwhile, large companies are lobbying Congress for an omnibus regulation that will preempt the patchwork of state regulations. The recent […]

With the growing popularity of newer technologies like the Internet of things (IoT) and big data, an upsurge has been witnessed in data breaches across geographies and industry verticals. This is one of the reasons why businesses are feeling the heat constantly to ensure data security and minimize the exposure to data related threats as […]

Last week while discussing the GDPR compliance implications with a retail entrepreneur from the Bay area, I was told that businesses treated it as a “marathon. I was not shocked to hear that business owners were fatigued considering that complying with a new set of regulations is an uphill trek and requires significant flexing of […]

As big data applications are expanding at a much faster pace, more and more businesses are choosing the path of digital transformation to maintain relevancy and stay abreast with the current trends. It has been seen that organizations have recognized the importance of big data and are treating data as an asset (probably one of […]

Reading the news about data protection and privacy in the first two months of the year suggests that companies are responding in a very human way to the pressures of new privacy regulations. Whenever we (humans) are faced with a new threat or painful experience, we become suspicious of the possible causes of those threats […]

If it seems like words and phrases ‘data breach’, ‘compromised data’ and ‘data leak’ are constantly in the news, it’s not just you. There’s no denying that the frequency of data breaches is rising at an alarming rate. Talking about figures, according to a report by 4IQ, an identity intelligence company, 2018 had witnessed a […]

It is 2019 and its time that IT departments drive innovation for their organizations rather than holding them back. Here are some of the latest trending data privacy and security stories, which help support this need. 1. Ron Mehring and Axel Wirth discussed Health Data Security Several technologies playing increasingly critical roles in mitigating the […]