Incorporating Privacy by Design in a Software Development Life-cycle
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 ...
Phishing a popular tactic in cyber-crime
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 ...
The EU’s ePrivacy Regulation
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 ...
The Impact of HIPAA
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 ...
The Top Five Cybersecurity Issues Trending in 2019
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 ...
CCPA and the Future of Data Privacy
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 ...
A Data-First Approach to Security
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 ...
The Importance of Cyber-security in the world of Telecommunications
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 ...
The rise of the Fintech sector
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 ...
Data Erasure & The Right to be Forgotten
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 ...
