Raajveer Loyal

Blog – Protegrity

With digital transformation being a key driver in how data is used and shared across systems to help drive innovation as well as improve customer experiences, privacy continues to be an important concern. The introduction of new privacy regulations such as GDPR in Europe and the soon to be launched ... Read More

An increasingly popular form of cyber-crime-Phishing poses a very real and significant threat to organisations as well as individuals around the world. According to a recent report by Verizon, in the last year, nearly a third of all data breaches involved some sort of phishing attack. The publication of this ... Read More

Presently a draft EU legislative instrument, the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation is intended to replace the existing Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, this directive, was adopted by the UK in 2003. The new law aims to consolidate the implementation of it by member states, and to align with The GDPR regulation ... Read More

In 1996 the US congress passed a new regulation for the healthcare industry: The Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), designed to protect the privacy and security of sensitive health information of patients, additionally the act also provided a national standard for electronic health care transactions as well ... Read More

With the average cost of a data-breach rising year on year, (with some estimates being close to $4million) it underscores the importance of why cyber security needs to be taken seriously. Cyber-security itself evolves over time meaning businesses need to remain updated on the latest trends and legal requirements such ... Read More

In May 2018 the European Union introduced the GDPR regulation across Europe, which comprehensively updated EU data privacy laws; at roughly the same time the US state of California introduced its own equivalent to GDPR – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The impact of CCPA on the US data ... Read More

With news of the Marriott Hotel data breach questions arose as to how such a breach could occur in the first place when the hotel industry in particular has a history of security breaches. The reason why hotels such as the Marriott don’t often prioritise data security could be because ... Read More

When it comes to cybersecurity the telecommunications sector is widely viewed as one of the most vulnerable to cyber security attacks. According to a recent report from Efficient 43% of telecommunication organisations have suffered a DNS-malware based attack. It was also found that on average, telecoms only applied 4 of ... Read More

The UK’s Fintech (Financial Technology) sector is on the rise – despite Brexit uncertainty investors have put $16bn into the UK fintech market in just the first-half of 2018, a level of investment surpassing that of both the US and China. The UK remains the main hub in Europe for ... Read More

The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a legal concept that is fast evolving in the European Union (EU) that could eventually find its way to the US federal law according to data privacy experts. With the amount of personal information flowing around the internet, and the misuse of it, it ... Read More