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• Why police forces need to be honest about mass mobile phone surveillance

  Police forces across the UK are covering up their use of sophisticated mass surveillance devices, known as IMSI-catchers - the Bristol Cable and Liberty are campaigning for proper transparency  Continue Reading

• 3, 2, 1, GDPR: How to be prepared on 25 May

  There are seven key areas organisations should review to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, and even though the deadline is less than four months away, it is still not too late to start  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Automating basic security tasks

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Policy key to limiting messaging app security risks

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Government’s cyber security policy: decide or delay?

  The UK government is leaving too many of its options open and needs to implement effective cyber security rules now  Continue Reading

• A guide for businesses to China’s first cyber security law

  Companies that break China’s new cyber security law may be fined or even have their licence to trade in the country removed  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three areas of web security challenges

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Is the tide going out for transatlantic data flows?

  Businesses face new uncertainty over their ability to share data with the US, as Europe’s highest court reassesses the legality of the EU’s model data-sharing contracts  Continue Reading

• GDPR for the CIO: Data protection is about more than GDPR compliance

  If you approach GDPR as if compliance is all that matters, then you're bound to fail – data protection should be at the heart of business strategy  Continue Reading

• More hospitals in APAC adopting IT to bolster patient care

  Healthcare providers in the APAC region are looking to the cloud and big data analytics to enhance services and lower cost  Continue Reading

• Legal hurdles cloud Max Schrems complaint over US spying

  The Irish High Court in Dublin has embarked on a long hearing into the legality of standard contractual clauses. It is a sideshow from the real issue – the legality of US surveillance in the UK and Ireland  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patching, backup and access control key to resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• The NIS Directive: the implications for UK technology businesses

  With the European Union NIS Directive to be implemented into UK law in May 2018, it is important for technology companies to ascertain if and how they will be affected  Continue Reading

• Criminal law: Are Twitter threats taken seriously?

  As threats of violence become increasingly common online, law enforcement is taking stronger action against the perpetrators  Continue Reading

• Why GDPR is so relevant to the business

  The GDPR is not only relevant to CISOs and DPOs, and has a massive impact on businesses  Continue Reading