Top news of the week: 02.06.2021.
Data Privacy
Why Healthcare Organizations Must Incorporate Data Privacy into Their Cybersecurity Strategies – and How to Do It
The following is a guest article by Monique Becenti, Security Strategist, Pondurance. Healthcare organizations continue to represent a prime target for hackers – if not the leading one: The ...
Government did not breach data protection laws with Public Services Card database
The DPC Helen Dixon concluded that the Department of Social Protection had not interfered with the role of its data protection officer (DPO) in ...
Q&A: Heather Adkins, director of information security, Google
What follows is the transcript of a Security Conversations podcast interview with Google security leader Heather Adkins. We discuss her role at the search advertising giant, the ...
Privacy group targets website 'cookie terror'
Campaigners lodge hundreds of complaints against sites they claim break cookie laws.
For startups, trustworthy security means going above and beyond compliance standards
Compliance means that a company meets a minimum set of controls. Security encompasses a broad range of best practices and software that help address risks associated with the company’s ...
NHS England’s plans for use of our personal data leaves me very worried
Trust in the health service is vital at a time when it needs to convince people of the safety and efficacy of vaccines, but NHS Digital is putting that trust at risk
Sweden Shut Down Infectious Disease Database After Intrusions
SmiNet, Sweden’s infectious diseases database, was temporarily shut down last week by the country’s public health agency, Folkhälsomyndigheten, following
EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief
Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants, Amazon and Microsoft, under so called Cloud II ...