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National Consumer Protection Week: Keeping your personal data safe in a digitally connected world

Webroot

March is a time for leprechauns and four-leaf clovers, and as luck would have it, its also a time to learn how to protect your private data from cybercrime. Each year, the first week of March (March 2-8) is recognized as National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW).

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Stretching the boundaries through artificial intelligence: the European proposal for a dedicated regulation. The protection of personal data.

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Artificial intelligence feeds on data: both personal and non-personal. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the European Commission’s “ Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence ”, published on April 21, 2021 (the Proposal), has several points of contact with the GDPR.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on best practices for automating supply chain cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

They point out how supply chains rely on software yet lack the security tools to protect them. Data breaches exposed over 37 billion records in 2020 alone — a 141% jump from 2019. Businesses must automatically secure their supply chains to protect themselves and comply with consumer-protection laws.

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Data Privacy Week 2023: Privacy Gains Power From Other Societal Forces

Security Boulevard

As the conversation around privacy progresses beyond a focus on security infrastructure and best practices for preventing data breaches, regulations are working to catch up.

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Survey Says…Cybersecurity Remains A Critical Challenge For Business

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

” A prior IBM Study on the cost of data breaches found, using a sample of 419 companies in 13 countries and regions, that 47% of data breach incidents in 2016 involved a malicious or criminal attack, 25% were due to negligent employees or contractors (i.e.,

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Top 6 Compliance Management Tools for Financial Services

Centraleyes

Over the last decade, financial firms have been mandated to adopt new compliance frameworks at an unprecedented rate, partly due to the sector’s digital transformation and rising concerns around cybersecurity and consumer protection. Ensure compliance with PCI DSS requirements through real-time dashboards and reports.

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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: Not Getting Easier; But There is Hope

SecureWorld News

Since the human element remains the most 'hackable' security control, these attacks will likely lead to even more data breaches and/or compromise of control systems. data privacy laws will create new compliance burdens: The growing patchwork of data privacy regulations across the U.S., Growing patchwork of U.S.