Melanie Watson Archive
From 25 May 2018, the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will affect every organisation that processes the personal information of EU residents. Tens of thousands of organisations around the world are facing a major upheaval in the way they …
In any effective and meaningful information security regime, data protection needs to be embedded throughout the whole organisation. To do this, senior management needs to drive the message from the top down and ensure that everyone – from managers to …
Due to be enforced next May, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will quickly change how organisations around the world manage data. With the new Regulation comes fiercer fines of up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover …
We’re not going to lie: documenting your compliance with the GDPR may be one of the most manually intensive parts of meeting the requirements of the GDPR. Since there’s little information about it freely available online, we thought we’d pull …
The overall costs of cyber security incidents and data breaches are reported to be much higher than the financial impact of burglary throughout the EU. And with GDPR fines for breached organisations up to 4% of global turnover, or €20 …
Any organisation that processes or handles information relating to EU residents will have to meet strict data protection requirements when the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into force on 25 May 2018. It’s important that organisations start finding …
Julius Kivimaki, a 17-year-old from Finland, has been found guilty of 50.700 “instances of aggravated computer break-ins”, which affected Harvard University, MIT and a host of companies. Given a two-year suspended prison sentence, his PC was confiscated and he was ordered …
As the German Government reviews its information security measures following one of the biggest cyber attacks on the Bundestag, the German defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned of the growing danger posed by cyber attacks. Von der Leyen …
IBM researchers have seen the ‘Tiny banker’ malware – also known as Tinba – target several European banks in the last month, including banks in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. Infamous for its small file size and focus on …
According to the ICS National Data Protection Survey, one in five Irish companies believe inept staff to be the biggest issue they face in keeping sensitive data secure. Here are just some of the most recent data breaches Irish companies …
