New consumer privacy laws and innovative fraudsters have given security professionals much to do in a supercharged digital economy. As our digital footprints widen, bad actors are finding increasingly sophisticated ways to access troves of personal information and sensitive data.
Globally, lawmakers are introducing privacy laws with the intention of empowering consumers to know which companies have collected their data and for what purposes. However, regulations meant to protect consumers can be exploited by bad actors to commit identity theft and other types of fraud.