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Cryptocurrency trading powerhouse Coinbase has announced plans to acquire Unbound Security, an Israeli startup providing protection for cryptographic keys and credentials. [Read More]
Security experts warn that the 'Sabbath' ransomware group is targeting organizations in education, health and natural resources in both the United States and Canada. [Read More]
Axiado raises $25 million to build a new class of security processors that provide platform root-of-trust for large enterprise customers. [Read More]
Google Project Zero's Natalie Silvanovich reports a pair of Zoom security defects that expose Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android users to malicious hacker attacks. [Read More]
The Singapore company says an unauthorized party accessed confidential proprietary commercial information and personal data. [Read More]
Claroty researchers document a series of severe code execution vulnerabilities affecting virtual private network (VPN) solutions relying on OpenVPN. [Read More]
GoDaddy has been hacked and customer data for some 1.2 million WordPress users were exposed to the attacker for more than three months. [Read More]
WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users, after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules. [Read More]
Microsoft's threat hunters have caught Iranian threat actors breaking into IT services shops in India and Israel and stealing credentials for downstream software supply chain attacks. [Read More]
Public cloud data protection provider Laminar has emerged from stealth with $32 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Compliance
Regardless of which framework you use, it’s crucial to operationalize it in the context of your organization’s unique environment and risk factors.
Failure to implement basic cybersecurity hygiene practices will leave retailers vulnerable to damage and fines during a lucrative time for their businesses.
Over time, holding people responsible will lead individuals to see how their actions impact the security of the organization and come to consider themselves responsible for the security of the company.
Big companies can say they are GFPR compliant, but odds are their current structure will never allow them to find, identify, and categorize all the data that they have collected over time.
Despite the long ramp-up towards the GDPR compliance deadline, the effects of the new regulations are still very much in infancy.
GDPR is proving disruptive for European citizens who are no longer able to interact with services from outside the EU. And the compliance costs can be significant as well. But are there legitimate concerns of overreach?
Complying with GDPR was the immediate challenge, but now there is an opportunity to capture the good work that has been done and make data protection a top of mind focus for enterprises every day.
While the upcoming GDPR compliance deadline will mark an unprecedented milestone in security, it should also serve as a crucial reminder that compliance does not equal security.
With domain name WHOIS data subject to the GDPR’s privacy requirements, the system will “go dark” until alternative preparations are made, creating a challenge for this who fight computer fraud and other criminal activity on the Internet.
Penalties for non-compliance with GDPR will be severe. For example, if your organization fails to report a data breach within 72 hours, expect a fine.
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