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GDPR Implementation Costs Enterprises More than Expected

Only 29% of healthcare organizations report having a comprehensive security program in place.

December 1, 2018

Six months after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, enterprises are finding that privacy regulation is costing more than anticipated.

Clear, Purge & Destroy: When Data Must be Eliminated, Part 2

Part 2 of a 2-part series on information disposal requirements

Steven Chabinsky

November 1, 2018

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Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to implement a sound data sanititization program.

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FERC Approves 3 New Supply Chain Cybersecurity Standards

October 29, 2018

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a final rule last week approving three new Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards addressing supply chain risk management for bulk electric systems.

Clear, Purge & Destroy: When Data Must be Eliminated

Part 1 of a 2-part series on information disposal requirements

Steven Chabinsky

October 1, 2018

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Even at their most basic, information security programs are complex and include a seemingly endless combination of controls to detect, prevent and respond to data loss.

Is Payment Card Security Slipping?

September 25, 2018

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A new report shows that only 52.4 percent of organizations maintained full PCI DSS compliance in 2017, compared to 55.4 percent in 2016.

How to Manage Lone Worker Safety in a Dynamic World

Employees who are out of sight cannot be out of mind

Tracy Reinhold

September 25, 2018

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In today’s world, global organizations face immense pressure to ensure their business is constantly evolving to meet the changing nature of the world. Business growth is driven by dynamic interactions – employees are increasingly mobile, on the road and working remotely to support their objectives.

The GDPR and Privacy: What Security Leaders Need to Know

If You Think the GDPR Doesn’t Affect You, Think Again

Laurent Villeneuve

September 24, 2018

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The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May of this year. While many in North America believe that since they are not located within the European Union the regulation does not apply to their operations, the territorial scope of the GDPR is well and truly global. Many of these companies are unaware that the GDPR is applicable to any organization conducting business within the EU, including those simply collecting data there.

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Manufacturing and The Cloud – Navigating the Evolving Security Landscape

Rob Janssens

August 23, 2018

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Despite the ever-evolving sophistication of hackers, security-conscious cloud providers now offer a far safer environment at a lower cost than most individual companies can provide for themselves.

Small and Mid-Size Businesses Need to Focus on Cybersecurity

Mathieu Chevalier

July 5, 2018

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There seems to be a constant supply of news stories involving high-profile, high-impact criminal cyber activity. More often than not, the data breaches that we hear about occur at large businesses or global organizations. This leads many people to think that it’s only those big companies who are at risk of being attacked. They incorrectly assume that today’s cybercriminal is always looking for a giant financial payout or a huge cache of personal data. But the reality is that small and mid-size businesses (SMB) are actually at greater risk.

A Seismic Shift: What California’s New Privacy Law Means for Cybersecurity

John Adams

July 5, 2018

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Like the GDPR before it, the CCPA is getting a lot of attention because of the rights California residents will have to access data held by companies, to have that data removed, and to prohibit the sale of personal data. The new law, which does not go into effect until 2020, also creates the potential for some eye-popping payments directly to consumers impacted by a breach.

ON DEMAND: Organizations, both large and small, face a constant challenge in today’s business environment: the management, storage and analysis of exponential amounts of data. And no type of data is more dynamic and complex than video surveillance data. In addition, video surveillance storage represents up to half of an enterprise's storage footprint. Therefore, IT and security leaders constantly evaluate new ways to meet video surveillance storage requirements. Hyerpconverged solutions purpose-built for video surveillance and secure cloud-based options are emerging as valuable solutions to manage, retain and protect video, security, corporate and IT data.

The term “Internet of Things” is becoming increasingly common in the vocabulary of IT and physical security professionals. While IoT may seem like a foreign concept, it’s probably more familiar than you realize. Of the 17.5 million petabytes of data generated by IoT applications, 84% comes from video surveillance! Additional IoT data is generated by integrated security sensors, access control systems and other physical security applications.

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