This coming Tuesday, January 28, marks International Data Privacy Day. Powered by the National Cyber Security Alliance, Data Privacy Day “encourages consumers to own their privacy and businesses to improve their data privacy practices.”
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Privacy isn’t just a compliance concern; it has broader implications for the business.
The way the world sees and manages data privacy has been subject to a massive shake up in the past two years. And while data privacy has always been on the agenda of truly customer-focused organisations, it’s heartening to see that data privacy is now a boardroom priority for every business.
Privacy isn’t just a compliance concern; it has broader implications for the business. It’s data that drives competitive differentiation and companies that take privacy seriously are five times.....Read More
Key dates, then, such as Data Privacy Day, are important for businesses and consumers alike.
The amount of data produced in the world each day is incredible. Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of storable information is developed every 24 hours — and the pace, and value, of this will only increase with the rise of automation and digitalised technologies.
Although we may not appreciate it, personal information has become a prime commodity in our global economy. It provides a snapshot of our day-to-day lives, and can be used by organisations for targeted advertising and for determining the.....Read More
Data Privacy Day: What's Next?
An unspoken part of the data privacy challenge is that people distrust large corporations, government and law enforcement agencies to manage their privacy. (Even while they send their private information to the most transparent phishing operations – go figure.) In theory, we want privacy. In reality, people will not trade off user experience and safety for digital privacy that they do not believe in.
Data privacy will not be solved just by passing sweeping legislation or a single magical.....Read More
As we are mindful of Data Privacy Day this January.
As we are mindful of Data Privacy Day this January, we are reminded even more of how companies and their clients or customers need to stay hyper aware of ensuring that their data is safe and protected. This rings especially true when it comes to digital transformation and data migration as the complexity of these processes leaves important data vulnerable and opened to the risk of getting lost or hacked. When companies make the move to new application systems, it is essential to ensure a smooth .....Read More
AI is a promising and powerful technology that is poised to positively change industries.
Consumers are hyperaware of the value placed upon their information, and Data Privacy Day serves as a reminder for all organisations to realise how important it is to act as stewards of the data entrusted to them, especially in the age of AI. Consumer trust matters more now than ever with repeated data breaches, reports of unauthorised data use, and increased regulatory scrutiny, and it needs to be top of mind.
AI is a promising and powerful technology that is poised to positively change.....Read More
The good news is, automation can speed up excessive access checking and helps organizations drill down to the user level.
Data Privacy Day is all about raising awareness of how organizations put the vast amount of sensitive data they store at risk and encouraging everyone to take action to better protect this data. One major risk to data privacy is excessive access, which simply means that there are individuals, either internally or externally, who have unnecessary access to information on the mainframe. The more people with access to information, the more likely your data will be compromised. These issues can.....Read More
No Facebook. No Tweeting. No LinkedIn. No Instagram. Nothing.
While organized crime rings and governments (there is some overlap there!) get the most blame for data privacy breaches, the greatest loss of data privacy is self-inflicted. The best way for people to protect their data privacy is to go cold turkey and make January 28 a Zero Social Networking Day. No Facebook. No Tweeting. No LinkedIn. No Instagram. Nothing. For one day, forget being Carbon Neutral and go Zero Social.
One way for tech leaders to solve this problem is to deploy Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solutions.
The topic of data privacy could not be more relevant in the current cybersecurity landscape. Last year, for example, a number of headline-hitting data breaches were revealed to be a result of misplaced security design choices - demonstrating the damaging consequences of underestimating security requirements.
A large cause for concern here is when it comes to businesses building identity management functionality in-house. No matter how big the development team some companies may have, a.....Read More
Protecting data privacy should be a board level priority for all organizations.
Protecting data privacy should be a board level priority for all organizations. Understanding both legal and operational requirements should not be passed over quickly as the devil is in the details on these matters. Companies should post privacy statements and consumers should read them to determine if the company’s policies are sufficient to protect their information and rights. Noting, this goes well beyond just reading a cookies banner. If these statements are not clear or complete, it.....Read More
Regulatory compliance is just the start - organisations should do everything they can to protect their customer's data
Data Privacy Day provides an important opportunity for organisations to take a step back and consider whether they really are doing enough to keep their customers’ data secure in the face of today’s threats. While data protection regulations such as the EU GDPR have helped start conversations and forced organisations to think differently about how to keep data secure, this is just the starting point. Just because a business complies with a regulation, that does not necessarily mean it is.....Read More
75% of IT leaders anticipate that security will have the largest impact on their data strategy over the next 12 months.
Data privacy has moved beyond protection and is now a question of trust.
We, as consumers, trust organisations to handle our data in a secure, standardised and accountable way. But with 60% of UK businesses planning to migrate apps and data to the cloud within the next year, the risks are high. Combine this with the rise of 5G, edge computing and AI bringing about entirely new and disruptive ways to use data, organisations must ensure suitable safeguards are in place, tested and updated as .....Read More
By investing in optimised data management driven by compliance, organisations can effectively increase the value of their data.
Fortunately, life after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has seen organisations begin to change how they think about data privacy. While avoiding regulatory fines and reputational damage is often top of mind, savvy business leaders may also see the business benefits that effective compliance can bring: the ability to generate high quality, streamlined data that can be monetised through applying predictive analytics.
By investing in optimised data management driven by compliance, .....Read More
In 2019, 53% of consumers stated that they would cancel a transaction if they didn’t like something in the privacy policy.
The rest of the data privacy iceberg will begin to emerge
As we welcome in another Data Privacy Day, this date – and what it represents - has never been more relevant or more important.
It’s clear that 2020 will be the year that the rest of the data privacy iceberg begins to emerge. While regulations like Europe’s GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have already been established, new regulatory developments surrounding data privacy are continually coming to light.
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According to our latest research, 40% of large UK businesses expect to be cloud-only by 2021.
Over a year after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, the regulatory bodies are changing their focus from guidance to full enforcement. The GDPR framework serves as a driver for organisations to revisit their current processes and take full responsibility for how they process and store personal data. As the UK leaves the EU, this legal responsibility doesn’t go away. The UK government passed the Data Protection Act 2018 to provide an equivalent law to GDPR......Read More
Businesses should use data privacy day as a prompt to ensure that their cloud networks are properly configured.
Businesses should use data privacy day as a prompt to ensure that their cloud networks are properly configured. Last year Capital One had more than 100 million records breached due to misconfigurations in the cloud. And with the Varonis Data Risk Report finding that 53 percent of companies had 1,000 sensitive files open to every employee, there are likely to be more businesses suffering similar breaches in the weeks and months ahead.
Making sure your cloud estate is in good order not only.....Read More
If you sacrifice privacy you are also sacrificing security and ultimately ends in a lack of trust.
It can be argued that the end of privacy as we know it is closer than you may think. In essence, privacy allows citizens to be free and when you take away or constrain privacy, you take away citizens freedom.
The reality today is that almost everyone is being tracked and monitored 24/7 with thousands of cameras recording your expressions, fashion, interactions and speech to determine what you need, what you might be thinking and who you are meeting. Algorithms can even determine what your.....Read More
With an increasing number of data protection laws around the world, data privacy remains a very pressing topic.
Elodie Dowling, EMEA General Counsel, BMC Software
With an increasing number of data protection laws around the world, data privacy remains a very pressing topic, and businesses such as cloud service providers continue to face an array of complex and logistical challenges to adhere to across their multi-cloud infrastructure, to ensure their customers’ data remains protected.
Over the course of the last year, there have been a large volume of data breaches being reported. Data Privacy.....Read More
By shifting security left, developers are able to fix vulnerabilities faster and more effectively.
Many businesses today are software-driven and they are conscious of the role software security plays in keeping data protected. There is a greater need to ensure security is a core part of the software development process going forward. As a new data-driven decade commences, businesses should empower developers by training them on best practices in secure coding and providing the tools to enable them to find and fix vulnerabilities in their software.
We know that unresolved vulnerabilities.....Read More
This approach will remain difficult, expensive and inconvenient.
You hear a lot of people in the industry talking about Zero Trust. Whist it is certainly a core element of improving data protection standards, we need to be more realistic about its wide-scale implementation.
Despite the hype, no one is actually doing ‘Zero Trust’ yet. Putting the infrastructure in place to enable organisations to verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access is a really hard thing to do, as we can’t easily layer it onto.....Read More
Passcodes and PIN numbers can easily be captured from a glance over someone’s shoulder.
As data breaches continue to hit the headlines, businesses and consumers alike are becoming more and more aware of the need to protect their data. Here are a couple of simple tips to help keep your personal information secure:
Swap PIN codes for biometrics
When it comes to passwords and PIN codes, people are creatures of habit. People not only use the same password across multiple online accounts, they will also happily use the same PIN code for their debit card and their phone, or a.....Read More
Consumers need to know their rights.
In order to create awareness around the importance of data privacy, we need to consider what businesses and consumers alike can do to better their privacy and avoid their data being leaked. With the news reporting data breaches from different organisations daily, it’s important consumers take measures to ensure they are doing all they can to avoid the same thing happening to their data. Consumers should be more aware than ever, and businesses need to understand that once they gain the trust.....Read More
Enterprises can’t count on their providers’ compliance alone – they must ensure their own forms of protection as well.
In today’s sophisticated threat landscape, customers expect that the enterprises they’re doing business with are protecting their data and privacy, no matter where in the world they are located. These expectations are shifting how businesses must now operate, especially considering they also need to adhere to an ever-widening set of data privacy regulations, including GDPR. While meeting these compliance regulations is complex and challenging, they cannot be ignored. A key part of this will .....Read More
On Data Privacy Day, it’s important to remember that sensitive information needs safeguarding more than ever before.
Data is a new currency that individuals and organizations are mining and monetizing around the world. Some of the biggest technology companies in the world such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon use data they collect on their platforms for targeted advertisements, which is a main driver for their monopolistic profits. While many admire these companies as American pioneers, they should also realize that we are entrusting them with our personal data, which is a large responsibility. On Data Privacy .....Read More
The range of protection for email messages and calendars can vary.
Here are some actions you can take, starting today, which can help reduce the possibility of digital security incidents from effecting your life, as these are things within our control.
Use a password manager application and vault. Let 2020 be the decade you finally stop using yellow sticky notes to store passwords and user IDs.
Always use a VPN. You probably use one for your work activity, so why not use one for your personal activity? Using a VPN is especially important when you connect.....Read More
The CCPA also puts in place costly penalties against organizations that collect data and fail to protect it.
This year, International Data Privacy Day follows one of the biggest data privacy events since EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect. CCPA is the strongest consumer privacy legislation mandated at the state level, and it gives significantly more power to consumers to demand accountability and transparency for how their private data is handled. The CCPA also puts in place costly penalties against.....Read More
Unfortunately, many organizations live from selling user data by offering “free services” in exchange for users’ personal information.
Who needs an international data privacy day? In this perfect world we live in, businesses, governments, and other organizations are all honest and get cybersecurity right, have all the knowledge and resources on their side and take proper care of everyone’s data. NOT. Sarcasm aside, if we take a look at the facts, businesses actually do quite a bit in terms of cybersecurity. Statistics show that the average spend on cybersecurity is about 5.6% of overall budget. With regulations like GDPR,.....Read More
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