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Cyber risk management – bringing security intelligence to the Board

Posted on 30th August 2019 in by Phil Alsop

Data breaches are costly. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study, the average breach costs an organisation $3.86 million. A separate study found that, although the share price of breach-affected companies shows its sharpest drop 14 days after the breach is made public, there is still a...

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GDPR Compliance – Best Practice Security

Posted on 23rd August 2019 in by Phil Alsop

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018, businesses from all sectors struggled to meet the deadline. According to our research announced around the same time, more than two thirds of companies were not confident of being fully compliant ahead of the GDPR...

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GDPR – one year on

Posted on 19th August 2019 in by Phil Alsop

How has GDPR changed the security and compliance landscape? Over the following pages, you’ll find a range of views and opinions as to what’s changed, for better and worse! Here, we start with a GDPR Q and A with Mark Thompson, Global Privacy Lead, KPMG.

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The five myths of GDPR

Posted on 19th August 2019 in by Phil Alsop

May 2019 marks 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...