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  • A Brief overview of GDPR

    Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) is currently a gold standard for Privacy and personal data protection. Data Protection Principles (Article 5) Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparent Purpose Limitation Data Minimization Accuracy (links to Data Governance) Storage Limitation Integrity and… Continue reading

  • Mid-size companies are the biggest cybersecurity risk

    Mid-size companies tend to ignore Internal Controls. They focus on securing the parameter and leaves the layer of internal controls as cumbersome and costly. With the increase of digital business, these mid-size companies have an incredible amount of data. These… Continue reading

  • Council of Europe’s declaration on the Manipulative Capabilities of Algorithmic Processes

    Digital services are providing essential tools for modern human life. The sheer amount of our personal data and advanced capabilities of the algorithm in the form of a machine learning, or artificial intelligence can give the power and advantage to… Continue reading

  • California Introduces Breach Reporting

    California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, introduces a new bill requiring companies to notify data subject if their passport and government ID numbers, along with biometric data, such as fingerprints, and iris and facial recognition scans, have been stolen. This will… Continue reading

  • Council of Europe Convention 223 (replaced Convention 108) and similarities with GDPR

    In October 2018, Council of Europe passed the resolution to update Convention 108 (“Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data” which was adopted in 1981. It was long overdue as seen in the… Continue reading

  • The Making of a CyberPro

    “The siloed data governance professions of today will not be able to meet organizations’ data risk management needs of tomorrow.”, said Professor Dennis Hirsch,  Faculty Director at The Ohio State University’s College of Law Program on Data and Governance. Our… Continue reading