There is an incredible number of people, devices, and sensors that generate, communicate, and share data. Analyzing this data gives organizations the...
Apr 29, 2019 l Data Protection, Compliance, Big Data Analytics
The Top 3 Big Data Security and Compliance Challenges of 2019
Apr 18, 2019 l Data Protection, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing
No Cloud, One Cloud, Multicloud - How do you Secure Big Data Analytics?
The term “Big data” has been around for a while already (almost 15 years now) and the hype is almost over. So is it not relevant anymore?
Mar 4, 2019 l Data Protection, Compliance
What's the Point of a "National Consumer Protection Week"?
In this perfect world we live in, businesses, governments, and other organizations are all honest and get cybersecurity right. They have all the...
I recently read a post in which someone claimed that GDPR was probably the biggest fail of 2018.
Really? I can’t stop myself from writing a comment...
Sep 28, 2018 l Data Protection, Compliance, Data Breaches
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 GDPR, PCI DSS, Data Protection, Compliance, Data Breaches
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 18, 2018 l GDPR, PCI DSS, Data Protection, Compliance
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 past...
Sep 13, 2018 l Data Protection, Data Breaches
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 380,000...
Sep 7, 2018 l GDPR, PCI DSS, Data Protection, Compliance
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...