With less than a year to go before enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which applies to any organization that handles Europeans' data, many larger organizations affected in India have yet to make much headway in appointing a data protection officer as required by the law.
Srinivas Poosarla, Infosys's data privacy chief, discusses the impact of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, on Indian companies and the steps that security practitioners need to take to comply.
"Fake news" isn't just a political concept. It's also a component of the marketing hype about Europe's General Data Protection Regulation, says Jonathan Armstrong of the law firm Cordery. How can security leaders cut through the hype and focus on what's truly important to their business?
The European Parliament and European Commission are pushing for mandatory end-to-end encrypted communications, and banning backdoors, as part of the EU's rebooted e-privacy regulation. But the move runs counter to anti-crypto rhetoric being spouted by government ministers in Britain and France.
GDPR is in effect, and in one year, regulators will start to assess penalties against enterprises not in conformance with the regulation. How prepared are entities? Will it take a high-profile penalty to get the world's attention? Michael Hack of Ipswitch weighs in.
The House of Representatives has passed the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which supporters contend could help improve the security of the government's information networks. "It will keep our digital infrastructure safe from cyberattacks while saving billions of dollars," says bill sponsor Rep. Will Hurd.
The massive WannaCry outbreak has led to allegations that some sectors and organizations, such as Britain's National Health Service, were widely infected because of widespread Windows XP use. In fact, unpatched Windows 7 systems may be partly to blame.
The government of India is taking the data protection and privacy bull by the horns, gunning for comprehensive data protection legislation within the next 5 months. Experts offer an analysis of what the nation needs.
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Europe's GDPR has business leaders everywhere talking about privacy. But are they having the right conversations? Michelle Dennedy, chief privacy officer at Cisco, offers her perspective.
Cybersecurity attorney Randy Sabett finds himself involved in many lawsuits tied to breach response and data protection. What tips can he share from cases he has litigated?
