Posts Tagged ‘GDPR’
How to Solve the Problem of Ransomware in a GDPR World
Lately, we have been engaging in a very concerted educational effort in two very important areas: ransomware and GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), of course, covers the protection and privacy of the personal data of EU citizens. Ransomware, certainly, is a nightmare. Attacks have been increasing and hitting cities with huge ransoms so they can start…
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How Data Governance Addresses the Risks of Data Residency and Sovereignty
Do you have a solid data governance plan in place? Is it up-to-date? Do you have a process for achieving it? If not, you might be at risk aggravating the current data residency and data sovereignty rules and regulations. With your eye on IT upgrades, data management, and the constant day-to-day interruptions, data governance might…
Read MoreHow to Simply Enable Right to Erasure (ie. Right to Be Forgotten) Requests
If you’ve been paying even casual attention to the news, you know that companies like Facebook, Google, and (the now defunct) Cambridge Analytica have come under fire for how they handle people’s information. Yet underneath the media firestorm, these same companies have continued to be extraordinarily profitable (well, except for Cambridge Analytica). Those profits enable…
Read MoreProtecting Your Data for Compliance and Ransomware
GDPR and other PII regulations have dramatically changed how companies handle and are held accountable for the data they collect. Consumers have been empowered to ask companies about the PII information they collect on them, and then have it erased. The Right of Access and Right to Erasure regulations means companies need to know more…
Read MoreCompliance Is a Word You Are Going to Keep Hearing
If you are not familiar with the new compliance regulations, it’s time to take note. Europe (GDPR), Japan (APII), Singapore (PDPA), and recently California (CCPA) have announced sweeping regulations governing personally-identifiable information (PII). The acronyms for these compliance regulations are almost as bad as the fines attached to them. Europe’s GDPR has fines starting at…
Read MoreMaking Sense and Dollars of the CCPA and GDPR
If you’re a solution provider, system integrator, reseller, MSP, xSP, et cetera, you already bear great responsibility for helping your customers comply with data protection and security mandates. In fact, you are probably their trusted go-to advisor. Unless your head has been in the sand for the last year, you’re already aware of the GDPR…
Read MoreAre You (Un)Prepared for the GDPR?
Today we released the results of our latest survey finding out how prepared companies are for the GDPR – it turns out, they aren’t! The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR for short) is legislation that covers the processing, storage, and use of private EU citizens’ data. The catch is, no matter where your company…
Read MoreTick-Tock, the GDPR Is Coming
You’ve already been warned: the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is coming into effect May 25. In this blog, our CEO Steven Lamb, will answer a few questions from ioFABRIC customers about what’s happening, why, and what you need to do. Q: I work for a North American company, why would this apply…
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