data security
Companies: Lean into consumer privacy to win
The California Consumer Privacy Act became effective on the first day of 2020 and will affect millions of consumers and tens of thousands of companies. The advent of the CCPA …
What students think about university data security
Only 32% of students agree they are aware of how their institution handles their personal data, compared to 45% who disagree and 22% who neither agree nor disagree, according …
Why outsourcing your DPO role is an effective insurance policy
Organizations are starting to take a much more considered approach to data protection as high-profile regulatory action for data mishandlings has raised both the stakes and …
Five cyber risks that will define 2020
2019 was a bad year for data security. By virtually every metric, it was the worst ever. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average …
What are CISOs’ most pressing cybersecurity challenges?
CISOs are increasingly preoccupied with digital transformation, migration to cloud environments, and data governance, a recent YL Ventures survey has shown. The Israeli …
SaaS security fears: Is your data exposed to potential risk?
IT executives have rising SaaS security fears, and worry about cloud security, proprietary data encryption, as well as the loss of independent control due to access …
What decentralized IT spending means for the CIO role
67% of IT leaders say at least half of their spend is now controlled by individual business units, in a report from IDG Connect and Snow Software. While most believe this is …
CPoC: New data security standard for contactless payments
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published a new data security standard for solutions that enable merchants to accept contactless payments using a commercial …
Despite potential fines, GDPR compliance rate remains low
58% of surveyed businesses worldwide failed to address requests made from individuals seeking to obtain a copy of their personal data as required by GDPR within the one-month …
What do cybercriminals have in store for 2020?
As we look to 2020 and a new decade, cybersecurity will continue to be a top priority for businesses and consumers alike. To help organizations prepare for the next year and …
Most businesses have yet to allocate a CCPA compliance budget
Only 15% of organizations report having a mature approach to data privacy, 59% have yet to allocate budget to CCPA compliance, and 58% are currently using or will look to …
SoniTalk: A new method for near-field communication
The technology is available for free and – contrary to similar technologies – focuses on security and data protection. In this way, SoniTalk leaves it up to the …
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