by Dutta | Mar 22, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Classification, Data Identification, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security Automation
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will cross the two-year mark of being in effect this May. The sweeping EU law on data privacy protection has been a catalyst for larger companies because they could face fines of up to 4% of global revenue...
by Dutta | Mar 12, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Automation, Data Classification, Data Identification, Data Protection, Data Security, Regulatory Compliance, Security
Privacy law has come a long way since 1890. It was then, a full quarter-century after the end of the American Civil War, when the concept of an individual’s right to privacy first appeared in the U.S. with the publication of the Harvard Law Review article “A...
by Dutta | Mar 4, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Automation, Data Classification, Data Identification, IT Security, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security Automation
With every significant technology market, the same debate emerges – is it better to buy a best-of-breed solution or a platform play? That’s a particularly relevant conversation as it relates to the data classification market, where vendors like Microsoft offer a...
by Dutta | Feb 26, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Automation, Data Classification, Data Identification, Data Security, Regulatory Compliance
When two Twitter employees were recently criminally charged with allegedly accessing user data on behalf of the Saudi government, it spurred a larger conversation about data access controls (or the lack thereof) for employees. Why, many experts wondered, did...
by Dutta | Feb 20, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Automation, Data Classification, Data Identification, Data Protection, Data Security, IT Security, Other Security Topics, Security
As we approach Data Privacy Day on January 28, I’ve reflected on what I’ve written in the last few months as to what happens when major businesses don’t do enough to protect consumer data, why they need to do better, etc. Today I want to explore what happens...
by Dutta | Feb 13, 2020 | Cyber security, Data Automation, Data Classification, Data Identification, Data Protection, Data Security, IT Security, Security
Health care data breaches are surging these days, with the first half of 2019 seeing 32 million patient records illicitly accessed. That’s more than double 2018’s total for the entire year. And 2018’s number was three times that of 2017. Last year’s largest breach?...
