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Regulatory compliance and standard requirements

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  European court to decide on legality of bulk phone and internet surveillance

  The European Court of Justice will decide whether intelligence agencies across Europe can continue to lawfully collect the telephone and internet communications data of citizens, following a two-day hearing this week

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Dutch banks to work together in fight against money laundering

  Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Government seeks views on post-Brexit security alignment

  The government has called for views on its proposals to align the UK’s post-Brexit cyber security policy to that of the European Union

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Nordic countries deepen collaboration with Estonia-based cyber security operation

  Nordic countries are now working closer with Nato’s Estonia-based centre of excellence in cyber security

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  GDPR non-compliance worse than feared

  Over half of UK businesses do not yet appear to be fully GDPR-compliant, and many have de-prioritised their compliance efforts

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  UK calls for cyber capacity-building at UN security group

  The UK’s representative to a United Nations cyber security working group has called for increased investment in capacity around cyber security

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Terror watchlist faces reform after court rules it violates rights of people entering US

  A secret US terrorist database containing information on more than 1.2 million people – who face repeated interrogations, detentions and electronic searches – violates constitutional rights, a US judge said last week

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Data-driven marketing, the real risk boards are missing

  Boards need to act to break the cycle of privacy compliance failures, and shift focus to aligning business purpose with privacy and dealing with the real risk of data driven marketing, warns PwC’s GDPR and data protection lead

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Australia government to chart 2020 cyber security strategy

  Australia’s home affairs ministry has released a discussion paper to seek views from all segments of society on the country’s next cyber security blueprint

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Security pros doubt officials can enact effective security laws

  Elected officials cannot be trusted to enact effective cyber security legislation and social media firms should be subject to strict privacy regulation, according to most information security professionals in a survey

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Tide Foundation aims to boost password security

  While passwordless security remains just out of reach, a non-profit organisation has developed a mechanism that it says makes passwords exponentially more difficult to crack

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Latest Facebook security lapse exposes millions to account hijack

  18 million UK users are among the more than 400 million at risk of account hijacking after phone numbers linked to their Facebook accounts were found in an open online database

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  CISOs think cloud safer, but security fears remain

  The majority of information security leaders think cloud is now safer than on-premise, but security fears remain, with recently breached and highly regulated organisations most concerned, poll reveals

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  Finland’s security agencies collaborate after cyber attacks

  National Bureau of Investigations and National Cyber Security Centre aim to increase expertise and capability to defend Finland’s critical IT infrastructure

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  Kaspersky eyes enterprise business, opens APAC transparency hub

  The security firm wants to engage with enterprises and use its newly launched Malaysian Transparency Centre to burnish its credentials