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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. institution of higher education. It does not include a natural person acting in a commercial or employment context.”

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How To Solve The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

Cyber Info Veritas

Solving and closing the gap for the cybersecurity skills shortage can’t be achieved with the traditional education and formation of employees by creating a curriculum in a college, training a person on how to “do” or “work” in cybersecurity, submitting an application for a cybersecurity job, then hiring the selected candidate to fill the position.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e., The business community is already lobbying the California legislature to narrow this definition. The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S.

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Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

ARMA International

Note, however, that even the complete removal or redaction of names would be considered “pseudonymization” under GDPR Recital 26 and the definition in Article 4(5), if the organization still had the ability to link back to the pre-altered documents with the personal information intact.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. So your pharmaceutical plants have clean rooms.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. GB JSP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Thailand) PCL Source (New) Manufacturing Thailand Yes >80 GB TREZOR Source (New) Crypto France Yes Nearly 66,000 Oak View Group Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 58,935 Innefu Labs Pvt. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. 92 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?