GDPR

Civil liberties organisations are being targeted by cybercriminals as protests over the murder of George Floyd intensify.  As protests spread across the world following the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25, statistics gathered by Cloudflare identified…

On the second anniversary of GDPR, Steven Kenny, Industry Liaison – Architecture & Engineering at Axis Communications, reflects on the impact that the regulation has had on the cybersecurity of IoT devices in relation to physical security. For businesses everywhere, the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in…

Research by LastPass reveals that 49% of automating identity access management (IAM) processes is an area for improvement. LastPass by LogMeIn released its findings of a report conducted in partnership with Vanson Bourne, to understand how IT and security professionals across various industries are managing their IAM programs.  The findings…

HyperBeard Inc., has agreed to pay $150,000 and to delete personal information it illegally collected from children under 13.  In a complaint filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Commission alleges that HyperBeard Inc., a developer of apps that are popular with…

Yesterday, the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) disclosed a data breach affecting over 329,000 members and other stakeholders.  In a notice of data security incident CPA Canada revealed that a cyber attack against the CPA Canada website had resulted in an unauthorised third party gaining access to certain personal…

The Public Service Commission invited Kenyans to apply for the post of Data Commissioner in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 2019. Last year Kenya made important advances towards adopting a comprehensive Data Protection law by releasing a draft Data Protection Act. This was signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta which…

Ensuring physical privacy is as much a part of GDPR compliance as is digital privacy. As a principle-based regulation, GDPR requires organisations to identify and assess specific risks that must be mitigated, rather than follow prescriptive rules. So, GDPR compliance is broken if someone has managed to: take a photo…

The 2020 Mainframe Modernisation Business Barometer Report reveals just 6% say it’s essential to modernise legacy systems to meet current regulatory and legislative demands According to new global research from Advanced, just 20% of financial services organisations cite an inability to meet compliance and regulatory demands as their top reason…

Written by Alex Hollis, VP, GRC Services at SureCloud.  After many twists and turns, the UK has finally left the European Union (EU). A new transition period has begun in which the UK has until the end of December 2020 to negotiate a new relationship with the EU. This will…

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will begin the “real-time” deletion of DNA records in September.  Following being disqualified from driving for a year after pleading guilty to drink-driving in 2008, Fergus Gaughran, from Newry in Co Down, was involved in a long legal battle against the PSNI over…