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Companies around the globe doing business in the European Union (EU) will need to pay close attention in the coming months to a new regulation that promises to shake up the way they manage data related to EU citizens.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), scheduled to take effect in
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Fueled by new payment platforms such as mobile wallets and mobile points of sale (mPOS), digital payments are experiencing high growth and acceptance rates.
For instance, 54 percent of Europeans regularly used a mobile device for payments in 2016, up from 18 percent in 2015, according to Visa.
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A Dutch artist once said his two least favorite words in the English language were, “Yes, but ….”
Most of his ideas for projects were greeted with those words by a skeptical audience.
“Yes, but what about the cost?”
“Yes, but what about the requirements?”
The list went on.
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We are used to identifying a risk, analyzing the potential consequences and their likelihood and then establishing a "risk level."
We evaluate whether the level of risk is acceptable or not, based on risk appetite, risk criteria or the like.
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Code Spaces thought it was prepared for a disaster.
The code hosting provider had backups. It used the cloud. It had successfully operated for seven years.
But one day, in the space of about 12 hours, the company was completely and permanently dismantled.
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Say "Silicon Valley startup" and people think innovation. And innovation for many is synonymous with the creed, “Move fast and break things.”
But when Zenefits was caught up in a regulatory scandal, the company reinvented itself with a culture of compliance to regain consumer trust in its software.
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Despite years of talking about information governance and compliance, less than half of companies surveyed have a compliance culture — and many companies apparently have no governance strategy at all.
In addition, more than half of those surveyed for the Providence, R.I.-based Information Coalition’s (IC) Information Strategy 2017 report rate
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UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham addressed one of the most significant impacts of the upcoming European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) during a recent data protection conference in Europe: A company with a significant data breach can incur a fine of up to four percent of global annual revenue.
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As a young boy, my family spent our vacations at a hotel near Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
The hotel owner had a six year old son, Mario.
Mario only spoke a little English, which he had picked up from guests.
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Sixty-two percent of companies activate their emergency communications plans at least once over the course of a year according to a 2015 study (pdf).
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US Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter on Friday ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside of the US to the FBI.
The emails were subject of two search warrants issued by the FBI in August 2016 as part of a domestic fraud investigation.
Google will appeal the ruling.
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Is your data safe from hackers? That’s the hundred billion dollar question.
We see breaches happening left and right on the news, yet the IT security industry is expected to boom to $120 billion dollars this year.
You would think with all that money getting thrown around that we would
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Cybersecurity, hacking and data breaches remained a major concern in 2016 — from the halls of government agencies, to the evening news, to front page headlines.
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In the last few years, we have witnessed a number of clear failures of culture in major organizations, including Wells Fargo, GM, Volkswagen and more.
Sometimes, the failure leads to a violation of law or ethical values.
But sometimes it can cause the organization to under-perform.
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