Data Protection March 7, 2023

Meeting today’s complex data privacy challenges

4 min read - Pop quiz: Who is responsible for compliance and data privacy in an organization? Is it a) the security department, b) the IT department, c) the legal department, d) the compliance group or e) all of the above? If you answered…

Data Protection January 27, 2023

Data privacy: How the growing field of regulations impacts businesses

4 min read - The proposed rules over artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union (EU) are a harbinger of things to come. Data privacy laws are becoming more complex and growing in number and relevance. So, businesses that seek to become — and…

Data Protection August 1, 2022

How to Prepare for and Respond to a Data Privacy Breach

4 min read - Before I started covering cybersecurity, I thought the term ‘breach’ had a single meaning — that an attacker stole data from a computer system. I also thought all the different versions of the word meant the same thing. However, I’ve…

Intelligence & Analytics August 17, 2021

Highly Regulated or Not, These Data Security Use Cases Still Apply

5 min read - In light of recent news-making breaches, we can see there really is no industry immune from data breaches. While I do not want to be doom-and-gloom, manufacturing, consulting, entertainment, retail, consumer goods, hospitality, transportation – these sectors together make up…

Data Protection February 4, 2021

Does a Strong Privacy Program Make for a Stronger Security Program?

4 min read - There is a saying in sociopolitical circles: “politics is downstream from culture.” Using that same line of thinking, poses a question: Is information security downstream from data privacy? In order to tell the difference between security and privacy and how they feed in to…

Data Protection August 12, 2020

Help Reinforce Privacy Through the Lens of GDPR

5 min read - The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) marked its two-year anniversary in May 2020 as one of the “toughest privacy and security” regulations, according to the European Union. GDPR has triggered a global movement of maturing privacy and data protection laws…

Cloud Security July 9, 2020

Overcoming Data Security Challenges in a Hybrid, Multicloud World

4 min read - Cloud computing is evolving at a rapid pace. Today, there’s a range of choices for moving applications and data to cloud that includes various deployment models from public and private to hybrid cloud service types. Organizations are seeking ways to utilize…

Data Protection June 18, 2020

Best Practices for Managing Data Privacy & Responding to Privacy Breaches

3 min read - A constantly changing regulatory environment has become the “new normal” for data privacy, and 2020 is no exception. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect in January and introduced one of the most sweeping requirements the U.S. has…

Data Protection February 26, 2020

Scalable Data Protection Is Critical to Support Data Privacy

3 min read - Organizations are scrambling to figure out the data privacy processes and controls needed to support specific compliance requirements and protect the personal data they store.

Intelligence & Analytics February 24, 2020

The Past, Present and Future of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

5 min read - Security information and event management (SIEM) was originally designed to help organizations achieve and maintain compliance, but over the years, it's evolved to become so much more.