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New privacy laws will come into force across New Zealand tomorrow (December 1) as authorities tighten rules regarding data protection. The Privacy Act 2020 will mandate that organizations must report “serious” data breaches immediately if there is a “risk of harm.” The term “risk of harm” isn’t specifically defined in the Act, however it is assumed to refer to any data that has been leaked outside of an organization or public body.
Companies are still in the early stages of understanding, adopting and implementing data privacy requirements and programs that support their company security practices and culture. Building the right foundation to highly secure and protect your company includes several fundamentals that are critical to supporting the infrastructure from the ground up. The foundation should be built upon the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) privacy framework.
During the Westminster eForum of data protection, industry experts discussed how a successful fight against the coronavirus is rooted in trust in data. In the COVID-19 era, citizens are being asked to accept greater intrusions into their lives to track and isolate the virus. The risk is that some of those intrusions might become permanent while we are distracted by catastrophe.
IDC predicts that the edge computing market worldwide will grow to $250.6 billion by 2024. Dave McCarthy, the firm's research director of edge strategies, thinks edge products and services will power the next wave of digital transformation. Companies will need to think about how to build out edge capacity with new infrastructure and services. Industry experts predict that companies will start to incorporate edge computing capabilities into the software deployment pipeline and use this infrastructure to support personalized content and streaming services.
It’s no longer viable to simply secure the perimeter of the network or the hardware itself to prevent a data breach. The data also needs to be secured at the application layer. This means that the data should be encrypted by the application and only that application will have access to the encryption key. The only avenue for an attacker to access encrypted data in any meaningful way would be through the functionality exposed by the application itself – something that can be easily audited for authorization and access control issues.
A recent report released by the United Nations found that 132 out of 194 countries have now introduced data protection regulations of some kind, all varying in terms of what type of information they protect and the severity of their restrictions. These regulations are being crafted in a world where consumers and businesses are now conducting a large number of their daily tasks and transactions virtually.
The EU appears to be laying the groundwork for a move against data that has received end-to-end encryption after a spate of terrorist attacks in Paris, Vienna and Nice. In a joint statement released earlier this month, home affairs ministers from EU member states called on heads of state to “consider the matter of data encryption so that digital evidence can be lawfully collected and used by the competent authorities.”
Can a balance be struck between the privacy of citizens and allowing health officials to access any piece of information for helping to track down a cluster of coronavirus cases? The way to suppress a surge in cases is to make sure those with the virus can have their recent close contacts traced, thereby getting those identified into quarantine and tested. This is in the hopes that the virus can be prevented from spreading further into the community. Key to all of this is having quick access to data.
The Central Intelligence Agency has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM—the CIA confirmed to Nextgov Friday. Under the C2E contract vehicle, the companies will compete for specific task orders issued by the CIA on behalf of itself and the 16 other agencies that comprise the intelligence community.
Earlier this week, Siliconrepublic.com published an interview with bioethicist Dr Marielle Gross about the ethical implications of using patient data as we move into a more advanced healthcare industry. But it’s not just the ethical use of data that we have to think about in this new age of information, it’s the actual security of that data. While the beginning of the pandemic resulted in a sharp increase in cyberattacks around the world, hospitals in the US have experienced waves of attacks in recent months.
Industry must contend with the ethical challenges of building AI as the technology expands in physical and digital customer touchpoints. In the coming years, enterprise leaders can expect to see AI applications sprint beyond back-office tasks, and focus more sharply on where their brand intersects with customers.
In today’s tumultuous business-scape amid increasingly intricate, and often vexing, marketplace conditions, curating and mining data to drive analytics-based decision making is just no longer enough. For competing with maximum, sustained impact and mitigated opportunity loss, it’s rapidly monetizing data that’s now the name of the game—particularly when spurred by artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, emerging AI methodologies are helping forward-thinking companies achieve and sustain true agility, fuel growth, and compete far more aggressively than ever before.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shift to a largely remote workforce resulted in new security challenges for many organizations in 2020. In addition to dealing with a constantly changing threat environment, security groups had to suddenly find ways to address risks to the enterprise network and data posed by home-based workers. Remote connectivity and collaboration tools including VPNs and videoconferencing platforms suddenly became big targets for attackers, as did the cloud-based services and file-sharing platforms used by work-from-home employees.
According to new research 72 percent of enterprises believe data governance is an enabler of business value rather than a cost center. However, the study from enterprise search specialist Sinequa also shows that data privacy concerns are ranked as a top barrier to being more data-driven as an organization. It finds one in four organizations have more than 50 distinct data silos. For organizations that identify as being highly data-driven that number rises to 39 per cent.
The financial sector has historically been nervous about allowing its data to go off premises, making it harder to scale. Now it's allowing for some data in the cloud to speed AI and data management. Financial services companies are and continue to be focused on maintaining a majority of their mission-critical systems on premises, where they have direct control. They also want direct control to quickly recover systems if a failure occurs. It's also financial institutions that have the reputation of being transaction-driven and not customer-centric.
Trying to create equitable, practical rules for online learning during a pandemic is hard. Enforcing those rules is even harder, as schools struggle to find resources to help students access online classes and train educators in effective online teaching practices. Schools are also struggling to determine whether it is appropriate to use new technologies to keep tabs on students, and how to implement them.
Data privacy is hard work. Countless companies that collect, store and share personal data can make data privacy consent a simply unmanageable proposition. This is the premise of a discussion draft of a new United States data privacy bill being proposed by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio: The Data Accountability and Transparency Act. The proposed federal bill includes data rights for the public and data restrictions for organizations that align with many previous data privacy bills.
As more organizations migrate data, apps, and other assets to the cloud, security can become an even greater concern. You're trusting most or part of your security protection to your cloud provider and hoping that you can at least work with them to ensure that your data and other assets remain safe. But even if you have confidence in your provider, a certain level of uneasiness is to be expected. A new report from security firm BitGlass describes some of the security concerns with the cloud and offers advice to IT and security professionals.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated cloud adoption, and a hybrid model is the "ideal operating model" for 86% percent of respondents, according to a Nutanix survey. IT decision-makers reported deploying hybrid infrastructure as a higher priority for companies, even above improving business continuity and disaster recovery during the pandemic, according to the survey of 3,400 respondents conducted by U.K. researcher Vanson Bourne on behalf of Nutanix.
As AI tools become more commonplace, many businesses find themselves playing catch up when it comes to incorporating these new systems into their existing infrastructure. And that’s more than understandable — these tools are highly varied, often poorly-understood, and they’re constantly evolving. To start making sense of the AI landscape and determine how your business will need to adapt, the first thing to understand is that the term “AI” in fact covers a huge spectrum of different things.
Companies have been so preoccupied with the challenges presented by Covid-19 – delivering remote working overnight, getting people back into offices safely and securely, and potential job insecurities – that they have been distracted from Brexit. But with less than two months to go until the transition period ends on 31 December 2020, businesses find themselves with a series of data protection, privacy and governance challenges to overcome.
Some companies likely will have to significantly change how they secure data to continue working with European companies, under draft guidelines issued last week by the European Union that require increased privacy safeguards for information transferred outside the bloc.
When the notion of enlisting smartphones to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic first surfaced last spring, it sparked a months-long debate: Should apps collect location data, which could help with contact tracing but potentially reveal sensitive information? Or should they take a more limited approach, only measuring Bluetooth-based proximity to other phones?
Due to what some in the industry have lovingly called ‘tool sprawl,’ the average IT and security team spends its day referencing anywhere from 10 to 30 different solutions. If even a fraction of those solutions are related to security, then visibility over your whole landscape is suddenly fragmented. After all, different consoles and databases may not play nicely with one another.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released a new audit of data protection compliance covering: the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Plaid Cymru and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). It raised serious concerns that the parties may be breaking the GDPR in several key areas. Among the many recommendations it made, 70% were classified as “urgent” or “high priority.”
Dell Technologies has extended the level of support for Kubernetes provided by its PowerProtect Data Manager software to include the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes and the VMware Tanzu platforms. Competition among providers of data protection platforms has always been fierce, but as mainstream adoption of Kubernetes continues, a new front in one of the oldest battles in IT is opening. A wave of startup vendors focused on data protection in Kubernetes environments has risen to challenge incumbents that are moving to either extend the reach of their existing platforms or outright acquire smaller startups.
The huge global shortfall in cybersecurity professionals has dropped for the first time since records began, thanks to more joining the industry and pandemic-related uncertainties on the demand side, according to ISC. Its 2020 Cybersecurity Workforce Study revealed that 700,000 extra professionals, or 25% more than last year’s workforce estimate, have joined the industry — expanding its ranks to around 3.5 million. The shortfall in skills has therefore dropped from 4.07 million last year to 3.12 million.
New Zscaler threat research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260-percent spike in attacks using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security controls. Showing that cybercriminals will not be dissuaded by a global health crisis, they targeted the healthcare industry the most. Researchers witnessed a 5x increase in ransomware attacks over encrypted traffic beginning in March, when the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic.
The Fortune CEO Roundtable was held yesterday in partnership with Tom Siebel and C3.ai, discussing how CEOs should approach digital transformation. According to Francesco Starace of Italy-based power company Enel, “Ninety percent of the problem is that the people who are supposed to drive digital transformation are the most ignorant. He surveyed his employees on digital knowledge and found there was no correlation to age, gender or nationality, but there was an “inverse correlation between digital conversance and rank in the corporation.”
New research indicates that the majority of Europeans do not trust U.S. cloud storage firms with their personal data. A study conducted by pCloud surveying 4,500 individuals across the U.K., France and Germany found that 82% had concerns about storing their personal files with American technology companies.
Seven months after being called upon by members of Congress to investigate Zoom’s data security practices, a divided FTC announced on November 9 a settlement with the videoconferencing platform. The FTC’s five-count administrative complaint alleges that Zoom deceived users about several of its security features and harmed users by circumventing security and privacy controls provided by their operating systems and browsers.
The FTC complaint says that Zoom claimed it offers end-to-end encryption in its June 2016 and July 2017 HIPAA compliance guides, which were intended for health-care industry users of the video conferencing service. Zoom also claimed it offered end-to-end encryption in a January 2019 white paper, in an April 2017 blog post, and in direct responses to inquiries from customers and potential customers, the complaint said.
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration has an opportunity to make progress on several key tech-related issues, including equitable broadband access, the long-term impact of AI and automation, and issues of digital privacy and security. That’s the message from leaders at tech companies in the Seattle region and elsewhere as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris prepare to take office in January.
Maryland-based global hotel chain Marriott suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, which only came to light in 2018, four years after it began. In Sept. 2018, an attacker “performed a ‘count’ on the ‘Guest_Master_profile’ table, which would have told the attacker how many rows the table contained.” This count triggered an alert in its IBM Guardium database security software. The ICO notes that prior malicious activity involving the same database had not been spotted, because Marriott only configured Guardium to monitor fields containing payment card data.
Automated data security firm PKWARE has announced the acquisition of Dataguise, a company which specializes in personal data security solutions. PKWARE believes the deal will help enable it to offer a comprehensive solution to data security and privacy management for organizations through the combination of its automated remediation capabilities, and Dataguise’s ability to discover and protect data stored across IT systems and environments.
Joe Biden's presidency could lead to tougher sanctions for state-backed actors who target the U.S. with cyberattacks and carve out an easier path for a key trans-Atlantic data transfer deal, industry experts say. The next four years are also likely to feature stronger privacy enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and consistent messaging from the White House about cyber security threats, as well as enhanced cooperation with other countries on those issues.
The European Union (EU) is inching closer to formally ending the use of end-to-end encryption by web platforms such as Signal and WhatsApp, following a spate of Islamist terror attacks in Austria and France. In a draft resolution document leaked to Austrian TV network ORF, the EU said it recognized the value of encryption as a “necessary means of protecting fundamental rights”, but at the same time “competent authorities in the area of security and criminal justice” needed to be able to exercise their lawful powers in the course of their work.
The engagement with the cloud had been enthusiastic, but COVID-19 sent the innovations into fast forward, which meant that the enterprise was able to assess use quicker, but since it was a digital transformation that evolved from urgent need rather than careful observation and experience, it's now time to make the cloud more efficient.
Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows largeorganizations and governments to build applications that put users in contro lof their data.
Theways in which data protection and privacy regulations will affect Europeanbusinesses next year was the subject of a panel session during the ForresterTechnology & Innovation Global 2020 virtual event. Julian Archer, VP,principal analyst at Forrester, firstly discussed the more proactive rolebusinesses can play in driving data privacy regulation. The much discussed EUePrivacy Regulation law has still not come into force, and the actions of anumber of private companies is changing the landscape for which it is designed.
ThePentagon’s artificial intelligence shop is actively working on how to securedata and models from a newer threat: adversarial AI. The Joint ArtificialIntelligence Center is exploring ways data-sharing and model-sharing can createa manifest that helps combat cyberattacks attempting to impede or confusealgorithms into releasing sensitive information, CTO Nand Mulchandani saidThursday at an ACT-IAC event.
Millions of California voters have backed a controversial amendment to the state's consumer privacy laws, voting in favor of Proposition 24 by a 56%-44% margin. A state guide for voters describes the proposition, also called the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), as a way for consumers to prevent businesses from sharing personal information, correct inaccurate personal information, and limit businesses' use of "sensitive personal information," including precise geolocation, race, ethnicity, and health information.
Much discussion about the digital workplace in recent months has been about tools and platforms organizations should put in place to enable the millions of workers now obliged to work remotely. However, with so many people across the organization using them, their weak points, as well as their strengths, are becoming more clear. Not least of these tools are popular communication and collaboration platforms like Teams, Slack and Google Workspace (formerly calledG Suite).
Balaji Ganesan is CEO and co-founder of both Privacera and XA Secure. At the latter heco-created a security framework for the Hadoop platform, which along with the company, was acquired in 2014 by Hortonworks and introduced to open source as Apache Ranger. In this Q&A, Ganesan shares tangible ways to ensure data governance and compliance when dealing with customers' sensitive digital data and migrating huge data sets to the cloud.
Multi-cloud computing is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single network architecture. The multi-cloud strategy aims at distributing cloud assets, software, and apps across different cloud environments. With a multi-cloud strategy, businesses, institutions, and enterprises seek to eliminate or reduce the reliance on a single cloud provider to avoid vendor lock-in or potential downtime.
Using artificial intelligence and supercomputing to drastically shorten the time doctors and researchers spend diagnosing diseases and developing antiviral drug treatments, Nvidia, which got its start as a chip maker for video games, has played a key role in accelerating efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
California’s Proposition 24, which would expand the state’s landmark consumer privacy law, was passed by voters Tuesday night. The initiative prohibits legislators from weakening the California Consumer Privacy Act, creates a state agency to enforce privacy protections, and gives people more control over how tech companies use their personal information, such as race or health data.
Eighty-seven percent of Americans believe data privacy is a basic right, so merchants can’t afford to miss the mark on safeguarding consumers’ information. Michael Reidbord, president of retail technology organization Fashion Tech Consortium, explains how merchants must juggle evolving regulations that address consumers’ privacy concerns.
The 2020 BMC Mainframe Survey provides new insights into just how quickly enterprises rejuvenate mainframes as part of their broader AIOps and DevOps initiatives...65% of respondents are currently using or plan to use a dedicated mainframe Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), underscoring cybersecurity's increasing importance.
The cloud infrastructure market kept growing at a brisk pace last quarter, as the pandemic continued to push more companies to the cloud with offices shut down in much of the world. This week the big three — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — all reported their numbers and as expected the news was good with Synergy Research reporting revenue growth of 33% year over year, up to almost $33 billion for the quarter.
While businesses are getting better at protecting their customers’ personal and sensitive information, their focus on security training and protocols has declined in the last year. This decline could pose issues for businesses, as 83% of consumers say they prefer to do business with companies who prioritize protecting their physical and digital data.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid increase in the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems due to an increased need for automation, advanced analytics, and remote work. In fact, machine learning and other forms of AI are being applied to address the increasing scale of the pandemic itself. Now, say experts, is a good time to step back and consider the ethics of these (and all) AI applications.
In an enterprise where every executive has competing priorities in deadlines, money and personnel, some CISOs and CIOs fight for equal shares. CISOs are "sort of proxied away from the C-level stakeholders by the CIO," said Jeff Pollard, VP and principal analyst at Forrester. Because of this, CISO-like responsibilities often fall to the level of a VP or director, and "that's the start of the issue."
2021 will be a year of transition. As communities, consumers, and businesses leave the pandemic behind, they will embrace a new normal. Three privacy-related trends will underpin this transition: 1) an ever-increasing appetite to collect, process, and share sensitive personal data from consumers and employees; 2) despite the recessionary economy, values-based consumers will increasingly prefer to engage with and entrust their data to ethical businesses; and 3) regulatory and compliance complexity in relation to data privacy will increase further.
Between working remotely, spending more time at home this year, and businesses across many industries shifting entirely to digital, we’re online more now than ever. This means we’re also seeing more “accept cookies” banners—a bug on the Internet’s windshield and an eyesore we hurriedly click “yes” to so we can see what we actually came to a site to check out.
According to Gartner, there's been a noticeable acceleration in clients purchasing SaaS-based Identity Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) systems this year. Gartner cautions clients to beware of slideware and marketectures in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market as vendors rush new solutions to market that don't reflect a true cloud-based delivery-as-a-service model.
Tokenization is one of the most important benefits of blockchain technology, units of assets can be represented digitally on the blockchain network by a smart contract, and they can be traded. However, tokenization is not without its challenges. Many projects having tokenized assets have the tokens without the assets. Many inventions will take place in the coming years to improve tokenization. For now, it's a blockchain technology innovation that has not been fully explored.
Confidence in the security of cloud-based data solutions is growing, as more and more organizations decide to move sensitive data off-premises. This is according to a new report from Trustwave, based on a poll of 966 IT pros, which states that 96 percent plan to move sensitive data to the cloud over the next two years. What’s more, more than half (52 percent) will move “highly sensitive” data off-premises as well.
Faced with ransomware onslaught, organizations of all kinds need to rethink how they protect themselves. Part of that rethink means merging the need to provide better privacy protection for their employees with the necessity to protect themselves from the consequences of a ransomware attack exposing both customer and employee data. With federal agencies signaling the possibility of fines for complying with ransomware demands and the liability from exposing personally identifiable data likely to rise significantly, not doing so will soon be too costly to consider.
When it comes to keeping data safe, experts say artificial intelligence can be a "double-edged sword." The Universal Health Services attack this past month has brought renewed attention to the threat of ransomware faced by health systems – and what hospitals can do to protect themselves against a similar incident. Security experts say that the attack, beyond being one of the most significant ransomware incidents in healthcare history, may also be emblematic of the ways machine learning and artificial intelligence are being leveraged by bad actors.
Not that anyone was necessarily looking for "a star" amid pandemic recovery, but if an inanimate object could be considered one, it would be the cloud, which has taken center stage, according to the recently released "ForresterNow Predictions 2021: Cloud Computing." The report contends that if the companies that have found success with shunning on-premises backups and have, at last, moved disaster recovery to the cloud, something techs have been advocating for some time.
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, from machine learning and deep learning to natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, are rapidly advancing. “Technology has never moved at such pace, meaning the role of the CIO is harder than ever to stay current and up to date with technology overall, so understanding the vast array of AI capabilities is a stretch for most CIOs right now.
Cloud computing has become as indispensable to the data ecosystem as it has to consumers’ lives. Its collaboration capabilities (eminently evinced in telemedicine, online banking, and e-commerce) epitomize the remote interactivity of a big data landscape shifting, inexorably perhaps, towards the edge.
End-to-end encryption causes problems that governments don't like, so they're pushing big tech to come up with an answer. Seven governments from across the world have started a new campaign to try and persuade big tech companies to reduce the level of security they offer to customers using their services.
When it comes to leveraging AI, more than 80% of European pharma executives believe that Europe is behind the curve in general — and that European pharma is further behind than most other big-data industries. These are among the findings of a recent survey INSEAD conducted in partnership with Early Metrics (a European startup-rating agency) and Agalio, a Paris-based consulting firm.
Among IT leaders and teams building out hybrid cloud strategies, these three example use cases come up frequently. Which one could help address pain points in your organization?
Voters in the Golden State are set to weigh in on a proposal to strengthen their privacy rights in November, in the form of Proposition 24, also known as the California Privacy Rights Act. It would extend 2018’s California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect in July, and provide some new protections and rights for consumers with respect to their personal information.
While remote work comes with many benefits, it also presents several unique cybersecurity challenges. By now, the costs and consequences of a data breach or cybersecurity event are well-documented, and they threaten to undermine the benefits of this new work arrangement.
There are growing privacy concerns among Americans due toCOVID-19 with nearly 70 percent citing they would likely sever healthcare provider ties if they found that their personal health data was unprotected, a CynergisTek survey reveals.
The pandemic has led to a major shift in the way in which business and consumers use online services which is why the analyst firm IDC believes that the second quarter of this year marked a tipping point as cloud sales exceeded non-cloud infrastructure for the first time.
PYMNTS explores the hurdles that businesses commonly face when working to meet PCI compliance and how payments orchestration can make the process cheaper and simpler, without sacrificing their customers’ data security.
Cybersecurity is advancing at a fast-paced rate and concurrently, advances in technologies are progressively becoming better at aiding cybercriminals and hackers to take advantage of data security loopholes.Considering all the sensitive data that organizations store online, including financial documents and customers’ private details, it’s evident that one breach could have a huge negative impact on their businesses. Here are a few measures organizations can take to ensure data security.
According to Gartner, 81 percent of businesses are adopting a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategy. The challenges of protecting data and using encryption across public/private cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments increase complexity, cost and security risk. There is a range of encryption approaches leveraging the data security functions of public cloud providers to address public cloud data protection across multiple clouds.
Yang is chairing the advisory board for Proposition 24, which he and other supporters see as a model for other states as the U.S. tries to catch up with protections that already exist in Europe.
Data and analytics leaders must prepare for the growing demands of digital transformation. In order to gain relevant, real-time insights for actionable decisions, IT and data leaders should keep these three important considerations in mind.
Data management today is complicated and time-consuming, but it doesn’t need to be. IT leaders are crying out for radical change, but they can’t do it alone. This is where MSPs can add considerable value. They can help companies master data sprawl and navigate a new world with automated cloud-based data management.
As we move into a post-pandemic digital world, companies simply cannot afford to take the pedal off the gas of their digital transformation. As challenges mount across sectors, the IT sector, in particular, has had to ramp up to accommodate sweeping changes and client demands, demands that are not likely to lessen as many businesses move from recovery to building resilience.
To assess the greatest cybersecurity threats companies are facing today, and the 10 trends they should watch out for in 2021, Getapp, the software recommendation company, talked to 83 IT security managers for itsAnnual Data Security Report. The report found that "limited security for remote workers is the single most common vulnerability businesses are facing today."
The 2020 PSR found that on average 27.9% of global organizations maintained full compliance with the PCI DSS, which was developed to help businesses that offer card payment facilities protect their payment systems from breaches and theft of cardholder data. More concerning, this is the third successive year that a decline in compliance has occurred with a 27.5percentage point drop since compliance peaked in 2016 (as seen in the 2017PSR).
Parents are concerned about the digital safety of students, as well, according to a report from the Center for Democracy and Technology that found 62% of parents reporting they are at least somewhat concerned about the privacy and security of data collected by schools, and only 40% saying their child's school explained to them how it protects this information.
According to the new Cloud Adoption in 2020 report fromO’Reilly Media, there has been a significant increase in dependence on cloud computing. While this would normally be good news for major hyperscale cloud providers, the recent ending of the Privacy Shield agreement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) might just be a spoiler nobody expected.
German regulators fined Swedish apparel retailer H&M Group roughly $41.5 million for gratuitously collecting personal data on its employees at a company service center in Nuremberg – sending a clear message to all businesses that privacy guidelines extend to their own workforce.
A number of technology companies have come together to create the Global Privacy Control (GPC), a new standard to help ensure consumers can feel safe about how their personal data is used on participating websites.
Privacy and security are two great places to start. The events of this year have shown that consumers care deeply about these two issues. A survey revealed that two-out-of-three consumers are willing to uninstall an app if it collects information unrelated to the app’s core function unless they receive real value in return. But the industry must go further than that. It must also demonstrate respect for consumers’ time, intelligence, and general humanity.
Working out how to use AI, dealing with people-related challenges, avoiding the ethical pitfalls of AI, making sure you have the right technology in place, and so on – all are key considerations for the business leaders of today and tomorrow.
The more I understood how my information was being collected, shared and sold, the more I wanted to protect my privacy. But it's still hard to know which of my efforts are actually effective and which are a waste of time. I reached out to experts in digital security and privacy to find out what they do to protect their stuff – and what they recommend most to us regular folks.
With Microsoft disclosing that it’s “now standard” for employees to work from home at least part of the time, many other companies are certain to do the same, an executive at a Microsoft Gold partner told CRN. But companies that haven’t yet invested in data security solutions will need to do so, if they truly want to emulate the approach Microsoft is taking.
Benefits of the cloud are still a major draw for organizations, but now data security and privacy—once considered major weaknesses with cloud-based systems—are now considered pluses by many customers. Here’s what your organization needs to know about cloud security and privacy, and why.
The worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), grew 26% year over year in 2019 with revenues totaling $233.4 billion, according to IDC.
As the multi-cloud space continues to mature and become a mainstream component of enterprise IT environments, CIOs must have a clear picture of business objectives, constraints and deliverables.