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Regulatory compliance and standard requirements

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Marriott data breach highlights basic failings

  A breach of a guest reservation database of the Starwood division of the Marriott International hotel group highlights basic personal data protection failures

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  UK cyber security strategy making ‘good progress’

  The National Cyber Security Strategy is making good progress, but there is much left to be done, according to a Cabinet Office official

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  Cyber resilience lacking due to apathy of UK leaders

  An unwillingness to accept that cyber is a real threat to critical national infrastructure by UK political and business leaders has resulted in a lack of resilience, says security industry veteran

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  CIO interview: Stephen Docherty on NHS data sharing

  The Cambridge Analytica scandal raised awareness about privacy. Stephen Docherty, CIO of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, explains why

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Businesses failing to win consumer trust

  Businesses are still largely failing to win the trust of consumers to keep their personal data safe as data breaches continue to make headlines

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  ICO fines Uber £385,000 for data protection failings

  Like Facebook, Uber has escaped a potentially much higher fine for data protection failings because the 2016 breach that affected millions of UK customers is not covered by the GDPR

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  GDPR is encouraging UK IT directors to pay cyber ransoms

  As predicted ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation enforcement deadline, research shows that fear of fines under the new laws is making some firms more likely to pay cyber ransoms

• November 26, 2018 26 Nov'18

  Unprecedented actions by Commons committee augur badly for Facebook

  House of Commons’ serjeant-at-arms effectively arrested the CEO of a US software company and frogmarched him to Parliament, where he was told he would be imprisoned if he failed to hand over papers on Facebook

• November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18

  ICO finds Metropolitan Police's Gangs Matrix seriously breaches data protection laws

  A year-long ICO investigation has highlighted major problems with how the Metropolitan Police handles and shares the personal data of individuals on its Gangs Matrix

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Dutch audit finds Microsoft Office leaks confidential data

  The diagnostics Microsoft Office collects from users should be a source of concern for any government CISO, according to a DPIA audit

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Police challenged over refusal to disclose files on WikiLeaks staff

  Lawyers will challenge the Metropolitan Police Service today to confirm or deny whether it holds correspondence with US law enforcement about three WikiLeaks staff – including two UK citizens – in a freedom of information tribunal

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Government lacks cyber resilience leadership, according to MPs

  The government lacks political leadership and urgency in dealing with cyber threats, according to Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, calling for a minister in charge of delivering cyber resilience

• November 17, 2018 17 Nov'18

  Credit card fraud in ANZ showing no signs of abating

  The value of fraudulent transactions more than doubled that of legitimate purchases during the third quarter this year

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  Three factors marginalising the CISO role

  Chief information security officers are typically marginalised due to three factors, and de-coupling the technical and managerial aspects of the job will enable empowerment, says consultant

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  Many firms still stuck in GDPR prep phase six months after its initiation

  Six months after the GDPR compliance deadline, many companies are struggling to make data protection principles part of everyday business, says PwC’s GDPR and data protection lead