Data Protection

By Frank Krieger, Vice-President, Governance, Risk and Compliance, iland May 2019 will mark the first anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and early numbers make clear that its implementation has been a success as a breach notification law. As such, GDPR has affected multiple aspects of a business. It has created increased requirements for businesses to deal with issues such as security, compliance, data ownership, training and data management. The new regulation will...

Egress, the leading provider of people-centric data security solutions, today announced its official launch into the Benelux market. The company, which helps organisations receive, manage and share information securely, has selected Amsterdam as the location of its mainland Europe headquarters due to the city’s reputation for technical innovation and access to an ecosystem of top data security specialists. “Egress’ success over the past five years has been underpinned by our market-leading security tools that have...

Keeping our digital footprint private is growing more important – and challenging – in today’s increasingly connected world, finds Kaspersky Lab. Results from a survey of 2,000 UK adults found that people believe there is not enough business or state protection currently in place to defend it: 41% of UK respondents think that businesses should do more to protect their personal data, including passwords, addresses and bank account details, from hacking More than a quarter...

By Marcus Harvey, Sales Director EMEA at Targus We’ve all heard of travelling light but what about travelling secure? Business not doing so well? Sales down? Margins are tight? No company would want their competitors or members of the public to know any of this information, but many of us would talk about it or write confidential emails about it in public, without giving it a second thought. The fact is that ‘shoulder-surfing' or ‘visual...

By Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn Despite the well-publicised growth in cyber-attacks every year, both in number and complexity, businesses are still struggling to implement effective security policies. It’s no secret that weak passwords are a leading security threat and bad password habits are far too common. Yet businesses are struggling to quantify their own level of password risk, even those that use password managers. Why? They lack proof of their policies’ effectiveness. They’re missing...

A leading UK cyber security firm has joined forces with an Australian pioneer in payment card control technology to fight against the rise of global ATM Cashout fraud. Australian-based Tranwall’s transaction security software will be offered with Foregenix’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Threat Sweep. Both services provide security visibility of business critical assets in a single pane ofglass and prevent advanced targeted attacks with early detection and skilled response. Tranwall software will provide a...

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced the latest Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) report, an aggregated analysis of tests that measure the efficacy of widely used email security systems. This quarter’s report found that email delivered with malicious URLs, a recently added part of the testing, has increased by more than 125 percent in comparison to last quarter’s results. The data was analyzed and, as in past periods,...

TrustArc, the leading data privacy management company, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the TrustArc Privacy Platform a winner in the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® in the Best Compliance category. These prestigious global awards recognisze cybersecurity and information technology vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products, solutions, and services that are helping set the bar higher for others in all...

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced it has acquired Simply Migrate Ltd., an innovative provider of archive data migration technology. With this acquisition, Mimecast expands its migration services with a rich portfolio of connectors, combined with a deeper experience in helping organizations get out of the business of managing expensive, unreliable legacy archives so they can move to a next-generation data protection strategy in the Mimecast cloud. This...