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Organizations focus on fine-tuning systems to ensure compliance while reducing risk
66% of financial institutions face the significant challenge of achieving low false positive rates, putting unnecessary burden on their compliance departments and creating …
When will the GDPR pot boil over? It’s sooner (and different) than you think
There’s an old saying that a watched pot never boils. In reality, the sauce in that pot is heating up in a way we can’t quite see yet. After the major compliance ramp by …
There is widespread business confusion and ignorance about the upcoming CCPA regulation
ESET polled 625 business owners and company executives to gauge business readiness for the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January …
How to increase the efficiency of your risk and compliance management strategy
The rise of new business processes and the changing government rules and regulations around the globe are posing challenges for small and big companies alike, according to …
Current methods for anonymizing data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified
With the first large fines for breaching GDPR upon us, even anonymized datasets can be traced back to individuals using machine learning, researchers from University of …
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
Equifax has agreed to pay at least $575 million, and potentially up to $700 million, as part of a global settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial …
Most consumers still don’t know how brands are using their data
Despite the past year’s global focus on GDPR and other data privacy regulations designed to give consumers more power over their data, more than half (55 percent) of consumers …
German banks to stop using SMS to deliver second authentication/verification factor
German banks are moving away from SMS-based customer authentication and transaction verification (called mTAN or SMS-TAN), as the method is deemed to be too insecure. …
British Airways is facing £183 million fine for 2018 data breach
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants British Airways to pay a £183.39 million (nearly $230 million) fine for failing to protect personal and financial …
To remain competitive, businesses need strategic digital transformation
With no international alignment on how to regulate the digital environment, companies are managing an increasingly complicated set of conflicting rules in key markets. At the …
Priorities IT pros follow to ensure ingrained privacy and compliance
Products that help businesses discover and map data flows top the list of purchase plans and the privacy team is playing a larger role in privacy tech purchasing decisions as …
Consumers believe privacy is not possible, leading to a change in online behavior
82% of online users in the US and 75% in the UK are choosing to change the way they behave online, according to a new consumer survey by FigLeaf. For these respondents, 74% …