The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), settled upon by the European Parliament and Council in April 2016, will supplant the Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec of Spring 2018 as the essential law managing how organizations ensure EU residents’ personal information. Organizations that are as of now in consistence with the Directive must guarantee that they are…

After a revealing data breach, I was aghast with disbelief. At that point when I heard the news trickling in on the credit information which stands exposed, my first question was whether I was one of the large pool of potential exploited people whose individual data could be in the hands of the scammers? What…

Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) is a scheme where organizations must inform the agency when a data breach is likely to result causing serious harm to an individual by leaking his personal details online. Emails, Cloud and E Commerce have achieved business transformation online and are the pillars of day-to-day business activities. This is all good…

You might just have been alerted by the latest news that there has been a data breach and this time the personal information of many unsuspecting victims may have been compromised. You start wondering if you might be one among them. What do you if you suffer a data breach? Where do you go? Whom…

General Data Protection and Regulation (GDPR) is a law concerning every EU citizen and enforced on all 28 member states of the EU overhauling the Data Protection Directive of spring 1995 to bring into focus the protection of privacy of individuals in European Union (EU). This way the GDPR ensures rights of EU citizens and…

There is no business irrespective of size and breadth, that is unknown to a data breach which is continuing to make headlines as they are trespassing major sites in the retail store market. It is the small businesses that are largely affected by a data breach, while it is quite surprising that the small businesses…

Since the inception of Facebook, we have seen it develop and evolve rapidly. From its early days as a social network to share posts and photos with friends and colleagues, it has now become a massive global advertising network. Did you know Facebook has approximately 2.41 billion monthly active users? As the biggest worldwide social…

Data has become the most valuable asset in today’s world. An individual’s personal data allows companies to efficiently develop, tailor and market their services and products based on user demographics, interests and spending habits. But data breaches have increased significantly over the past few years, imposing threats to an individual’s privacy. As a result, many…

GDPR is an important regulation that defines the rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data. Even though this data legislation primarily applies to European-based organisations, it is also applies to businesses dealing in data resilience, data…

In today’s world, information is everything, or put another day, we are living in an era of the ‘information explosion’. So much so, that in many instances, those holding information can decide the fate of other individuals or organisations. This alone is why it imperative for governments to impose laws and regulations to keep data…