The Schrems II Decision: The Day After
This blog is for information purposes only and it does not constitute legal advice or advice on how to achieve operational privacy and security or compliance with laws or regulations. The European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) yesterday invalidated the Privacy Shield, an agreement between the European data regulators and the ...
The GDPR, Year II
With children, reaching the age of two is usually the change from a beautiful newborn to a moving creature that has reached the terrible twos. It may be that the same is happening to the General Data Protection Regulation as it approaches the mark of its second year of enforcement: ...
How to Secure Your Data Everywhere? It’s Easy With Unified Cloud Edge
The need to protect sensitive data has two main drivers, privacy legislation and protection of intellectual property against external breaches and insider threat. 58% of the countries worldwide now have legislation in place; these will become more onerous over time. Breaches and insider theft of data is a frequently reported ...
Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a view from the EU Rear Window, Part II
In Part I of this blog, we discussed the debate around AI: what it is, whether it exists, and to what extent it plays a role in our daily lives. In Part II, we turn our focus to the future, and how AI must be developed deliberately and thoughtfully to ...
Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a view from the EU Rear Window, Part I
Much has been said about the power of AI and how tomorrow’s CISO won’t be able to provide efficient cybersecurity without it. The hype surrounding AI is based on both the quickening pace of natural language capability development and the current deficiency of capable and competent cybersecurity professionals. A quick ...
Data Residency: A Concept Not Found In The GDPR
Are you facing customers telling you that their data must be stored in a particular location? Be reassured: As a processor of data, we often encounter a discussion about where the data is resident, and we are often facing people certain that their data must be stored in a given ...
Data Privacy and Security Risks in Healthcare
Healthcare is a business much like all verticals I work with; however, it has a whole different set of concerns beyond those of traditional businesses. The compounding threats of malware, data thieves, supply chain issues, and the limited understanding of security within healthcare introduces astronomical risk. Walking through a hospital ...
The GDPR – One Year Later
A couple of weeks ago, one famous lawyer blogged about an issue frequently discussed these days: the GDPR, one year later. “The sky has not fallen. The Internet has not stopped working. The multi-million-euro fines have not happened (yet). It was always going to be this way. A year has ...
2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Enterprise DLP
This blog was written by Ben Cody. I am excited to announce that McAfee has been recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention. I believe our position as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention is a testament ...
The Top 3 Reasons to Integrate DLP with a Cloud Access Security Broker
Companies of all sizes are adopting cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office 365, as a way to give their end-users greater flexibility and easier access to core business applications. This requires corporate IT departments to reexamine their current data security posture, including Data Loss Prevention policies to better monitor and ...
