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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S.

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Twitter Fined $150 Million for Using Customer Data Without Consent

IT Governance

Twitter has been ordered to pay a $150 million (£119 million) to settle allegations that it used people’s personal data to provide targeted advertising without their consent. Announcing the fine , The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and US Justice Department said that Twitter will no longer be able to profit from “deceptively collected” data.

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GDPR: Data transfers outside the EU – what are the rules?

IT Governance

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) restricts transfers of personal data to countries outside the EEA. So how do you make a restricted transfer in accordance with the GDPR? A transfer is defined as restricted if: 1) The GDPR applies to your processing of the personal data you are transferring.

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Millions of Expedia and Booking.com customers at risk after data breach

IT Governance

Security experts working for Website Planet discovered that the Spanish software firm failed to password-protect an AWS S3 bucket that held the personal details of hotel guests dating back to 2013. GB of data was exposed, including guests’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers and credit card details. In total, 24.4

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Free download: GDPR & ISO 27001 Gap Analysis Tools

IT Governance

Data breaches are on the up, and information security and GDPR compliance remain business-critical issues. That’s why – for a limited time – we’re giving away our EU GDPR Compliance Gap Assessment Tool and ISO 27001 Gap Analysis Tool for free*. A data list designed to help you fill in the process analysis tool.

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Automated Security and Compliance Attracts Venture Investors

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I The vision was to automate security and compliance across 14 frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. First of all, cybersecurity is becoming a “must have” for businesses and governments.

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Weekly podcast: Yahoo hacker sentenced, acoustic DoS attack and GDPR compliance fails

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the sentencing of one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Yahoo breach, a new type of denial-of-service attack that can crash computers just using sound and how not to email your customers. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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