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Data Retention – A €14.5million fine awaits for Real Estate Data Archive non-compliant with GDPR?
Data retention is always a challenge for organisations. Organisation just love retaining data and well, storage is pretty cheap these days. Whilst the costs of getting retention wrong (e.g. not being able to recover from a ransomware attack) are always high; a recent GDPR fine decision in Germany highlights the data retention problem could getRead More -
Business Continuity & 22301:2019 – Do I need to get new BC Software?
Here are some changes in the 2019 version of 22301 that could mean your current Business Continuity software solution may no longer be fit-for-purpose.
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Public Information & GDPR – I can do what I like with it…wrong!
There seems to be this idea floating around that if the data is collected from publicly available sites then it is fair game for marketers. If someone has created a profile on LinkedIn for example and their email address can be harvested (say by a recruiter or data miner connecting with you) then this publicRead More -
Data Breach: 10% of affected businesses closed down in 2019…or did they…?
I know there is a rush to get things out the door and I am very grateful for those who report on data breach stats but this article from Dark Reading piqued my interest: 10% of Small Businesses Breached Shut Down in 2019. Whenever I see a statistic like this I am always a littleRead More -
Security KRI – Are the Management Team walking around naked?
Poorly defined security KRI or Key Risk Indicators can give your senior management team a false sense of security but is a fear of presenting a potentially negative picture akin to the Hans Christian Anderson tale, 'The Emporer's New Clothes'? In this fairytale two tailors promise their emperor a new suit and tell him thatRead More -
Cookie consent after C-673/17 – To Consent or not to Consent…
Firstly, this is legal information about cookie consent, not legal advice... The judgement of the CJEU case C-673/17 is now doing the rounds and as one has come to expect when it comes to Data Protection recently, there is a lot of hot air and bluster about what the ruling means. Is this some form of paradigm shift inRead More
