The General Data Protection Regulation came into effect on May 25, 2018 and while there was tremendous noise around this event and it seemed as if...
Oct 26, 2018 l Data Privacy, Data Protection, Regulations, GDPR
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls for Federal Privacy Law in the US
On Wednesday this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a keynote address at the European Union's International Conference of Data Protection and...
Oct 10, 2018 l Cybercrime, PCI DSS, GDPR, Regulations, Compliance, Data-Centric Security, Data Protection
Cybercrime Doesn't Follow Regulations - Part III: What's Next?
In the past two blog posts we looked at regulations, the history of hacking, and cybercrime today.
Sep 28, 2018 l Uber, Data Breach, Data Privacy, Data Protection
Uber to Pay Record Settlement for Failure to Disclose Data Breach
Instead of informing the public about a data theft that took place in 2016, Uber paid hush money to the hackers to destroy the data in an alleged...
Sep 28, 2018 l News
comforte Hires Payments and Data Security Expert Glenn Kusik as Chief Architect for Enterprise Data Protection
comforte has welcomed Glenn Kusik to the company to serve as Chief Architect for Enterprise Data Protection in a period of rapid growth in the...
Sep 18, 2018 l Compliance, Data Protection, PCI DSS, GDPR, Data Security
Cybercrime doesn't Follow Regulations - Part II: the Evolution of Hacking
There is a basic question we want to answer in this series: Is it really true that “compliance isn’t security”?
We started with lessons from the...
Sep 13, 2018 l Data Protection, Data Security, Breach
Hundreds of Thousands of British Airways Customers Affected in Massive Data Breach
We all book flights online. Usually, that is nothing you have to worry about. But recently, hackers have stolen sensitive customer data from...
Sep 7, 2018 l Compliance, Data Protection, PCI DSS, GDPR, Data Security
Cybercrime doesn't Follow Regulations - Part I: Lessons from the Past
"Compliance isn't security - even if you're compliant, you aren't necessarily secure".
I recently heard this quote at an event for the payments...
Aug 20, 2018 l open banking, payment apis, psd2, digital payments, disruption
Open Banking, Payment APIs, and PSD2: Houston, we need a strategy.
Thinking of the pressure that Open Banking and PSD2 create for banks reminded me of an inspiring project management course I attended some time...