GDPR: Year One
On Saturday, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) crossed the one year mark, celebrating its first anniversary since it came into force on 25 May 2018. Today therefore we’ll be looking at its impact both in the…
How Data Loss Prevention can help with CCPA Compliance
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has emerged as a blueprint for data protection regulations in the US. Itself inspired by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the CCPA adapted the new international…
The Thailand Personal Data Protection Act: What We Know So Far
Thailand is the latest country to take definitive steps towards the adoption of data protection legislation. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) created a ripple effect across the world, with…
All You Need to Know about SOX Compliance
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, more commonly known as SOX or Sarbox, is a US law that aims to protect investors from accounting fraud, particularly in relation to publicly traded companies. Named after the two congressmen…
All You Need to Know about Germany’s New Trade Secrets Act
The new German Trade Secrets Act reforms the way confidential know-how and business information is protected in the country.
Data theft and data leakage represent a serious threat not only for personal data; in our time these…
All You Need to Know about HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was originally passed by the US Congress in 1996 during the Clinton administration and while its primary purpose was to allow workers to carry forward insurance…
Data Protection Regulations in Latin America
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created a domino effect across the world as its biggest trade partners rushed to align their existing data protection legislations to its strict requirements or passed…
All You Need To Know about GLBA Compliance
Although better known for its privacy stipulations, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also called the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, is a US federal law whose original purpose was to allow different types of financial…
Data Security Tips for Media Companies in India
A sunrise sector in the Indian economy, the media and entertainment industry is on an impressing growth path and is expected to expand at a much faster rate than the global average. Along with this, the stakes related to data…
All You Need to Know about Brazil’s New Data Protection Law
On 14 August 2018, Brazil passed a comprehensive general data protection law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) which aims to align existing legislation to the new international standard set by the EU’s General Data…
Japan Receives the First Adequacy Decision Under the GDPR
On 23 January 2019, Japan became the first country to earn an adequacy decision from the European Commission (EC) after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. These decisions, which…
The US Federal Privacy Law Picks Up Steam
As the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) created a domino effect across the world, leading to more and more countries adopting data protection legislations, the US, that was, until recently, strongly…
5 Best Practices for PCI DSS Compliance
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security requirements that helps businesses protect their payment systems from breaches, fraud, and theft of cardholder data. Developed by the PCI Security…
Data Protection in Canada: All You Need to Know about PIPEDA
Concerns about personal data protection are in the spotlight all over the world. In recent years more comprehensive data privacy laws have been enacted or proposed including the CCPA, the European Union’s GDPR, Canada’s…
Indian Banks: Tips to Prevent Breaches and Stay Compliant
The cybersecurity vulnerability of banks is high worldwide, as the business environment is continuously changing and new threats emerge every day. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions can help protect sensitive data…
How is GDPR Changing the Data Privacy Field?
After 2017 being named the Year of the Data Breach in the cybersecurity field, it was about time for 2018 to become the Year of Data Privacy Regulations.
Although the number of data breaches did not show a decrease this year,…
All You Need to Know about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The last few years have transformed cybersecurity and data protection from niche concerns to major problems as both individuals and organizations suffered from an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks and data theft. Governments…
Data Protection in the UK Post-Brexit
After months of intense negotiations, the UK and the EU have reached a deal for the UK’s exit from the European Union or, as it’s more commonly known, Brexit. However, to gain approval, the 585-page withdrawal agreement must…
CCPA vs. GDPR: How the Two Data Protection Regulations Compare
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the most significant development in privacy legislation in the US in recent years. Hurriedly passed into law on 28 June 2018, the CCPA followed in the footsteps of the EU’s General…
Data Protection Regulations in the Middle East
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has sparked a global legislative movement that aims to vouchsafe individuals’ privacy and curb data vulnerability. While some of these new regulations were years in the making,…
All You Need to Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has sparked a global movement aimed at protecting individuals’ data and enforcing stricter regulations on entities processing large amounts of data. While some of these…
Australia’s Answer to the GDPR: The Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme
Since its adoption the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created a domino effect around the world, with many countries moving forward with proposals for new data protection regulations or updates to existing…
Two Months Later: Living in a Post-GDPR World
It’s been over two months since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into force on May 25th and, after a feverish rush for compliance overtook all businesses, a period of relative calm followed in the…
Top 5 Ways DLP can help with HIPAA compliance
Health data, due to its sensitive nature, has always been considered a special category of data and invariably falls under the jurisdiction of data protection regulations. Under the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation…
