One of the most fundamental and most challenging requirements within the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the issue of Subject Rights Requests (SRR). As CCPA becomes operative in 2020, many businesses are expecting an influx of requests and worry that their current process isn’t built for the scale and scope needed. SRRs must be […]
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Privitar Case Study: Improving health data and protecting patient privacy
Privitar helps NHS Digital improve healthcare, protect patient privacy, support a tenfold data increase, and expand its services by partnering with AWS. The company provides software designed to enable enterprise-wide data-privacy protection. Privitar helped NHS Digital deploy Privitar Publisher, a solution that runs on the AWS Cloud. “The Privitar solutions, running on AWS, give us […]
Spirion Whitepaper: CCPA Compliance
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. Its primary function is to enhance privacy rights and consumer protections for California residents. The CCPA regulates what businesses can and cannot do with personal information they collect. Its considered a landmark legislation on data protection because of its strict guidelines. In […]
How Spirion Advances Compliance with the EU GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or “The Regulation”)represents the most sweeping data protection regulation to come into force in the past 20 years. The Regulation greatly expands the definition of personal data to include machine-readable information that is linked or linkable to an identified or identifiable person. Examples include IP or email […]
Mimecast: GDPR Discussion Paper: Overcoming cyber threats
Over 90% of cybercrime exploits begin with email, making it the single biggest threat vector to organisations and the data they manage. Furthermore, not only are emails a common vehicle to share and exchange personal data; email servers are prime repositories for data as names, emailaddresses, and associated contact information. It’s therefore critical to ensure […]
OneTrust DataGuidance: Comparing privacy laws: GDPR v. CCPA
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (‘GDPR’) and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (‘CCPA’) (SB-1121 as amended at the time of this publication) both aim to guarantee strong protection for individuals regarding their personal data and apply to businesses that collect, use, or share consumer data, whether the information was obtained […]
Egress: Insider Data Breach Survey 2019
Over the last five years, headline-grabbing incidents have demonstrated the potential implications of a data breach – from damaged business reputation, to loss of revenue and even company devaluation. According to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the typical data breach now costs a company $3.86M, up 6.4% […]
SAI Global: A Tale Of Vendor Risk
Did you ever expect to wear so many hats? DPO, Technical analyst and IT Guru, detective and political traffic warden, faithful corporate warrior and organisational psychologist. Whether you’re a CISO, Compliance Officer, DPO or Auditor, this eBook is a topical tale of vendor risk, that’s not to be missed. Imagine that one of your key […]
Syrenis: Do cookie management tools work?
We had a theory that the majority of websites were allowing the ‘prior placement’ of non-essential cookies. This report shows our findings, but first… What is ‘prior placement’ of cookies? Prior placement is the term used to describe when a website places cookies onto your device before asking for your permission to do so. Is […]
The GDPR Maturity Framework
In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became one of the most comprehensive data protection laws to be implemented in the world. Nearly all businesses and organisations handling the personal data of individuals living within the European Union, had to ensure they were compliant under the new regulations. The regulations led to the […]