Displaying items by tag: GDPR

Northern Data Group’s GenAI cloud platform, Taiga Cloud, brings comprehensive, in-region AI-as-a-Service offering to Europe by leveraging NVIDIA GPUs and the VAST Data Platform

With Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Observability Platform, customers have more flexibility and choice when it comes to tackling their most difficult security challenges.

The growing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks, with cybersecurity incidents responsible for a significant proportion of large-scale breaches, has led Boards and organisations to prioritise cybersecurity strategy and cyber insurance.

COMPANY NEWS: Enables full control of data at ingest and evaluates data streams five to ten times faster than legacy technologies, helping boost security, ease management, and maximise the value of data

GUEST OPINION:  In a post-cookie and privacy conscious world, data clean rooms are one of the most discussed solutions within the ad-tech and mar-tech ecosystems. Legislation such as the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and imminent changes to Australia’s Privacy Act, increasingly restrict how personal identifying information (PII) can be collected and shared. Therefore, creating a secure environment where data from different sources can be activated without revealing PII is highly appealing.

In the light of the latest round of GDPR fines, it would seem that Meta (Facebook’s parent company) is not quite the darling child that they thought they were.

Data security and analytics company Varonis introduces new features to help companies close critical security and compliance gaps in Salesforce.

Search behemoth Google has put off until May changes to the privacy settings in Google Workspace, having earlier indicated that it would take effect on 30 March (29 March in the US), the American website Ars Technica reports.

Meta states in an SEC filing it is considering leaving Europe if it can no longer exchange data from European users with the United States, following the Schrems II decision. This story is evolving, and since publication a response from Meta has been received which confirms the company is concerned it will be unable to share data between the EU and US, but denies its concern is over targeted advertising.

GUEST OPINION: Data Protection Day, impending in Europe, serves as a global reminder of one of the most important responsibilities for any organisation: keeping sensitive data secure.

GUEST OPINION: Key senior technology management from Extreme Networks, a cloud-driven networking vendor, today issued their 11 key predictions for 2022 providing advice to enterprises on trends in the year ahead for Zero Trust, blockchain, Wi-Fi, AIOps, cloud and 5G adoption.

Cohesity's new security and governance services aim to help protect agains ransomware threats.

GUEST OPINION by Derek Cowan, Director of System Engineering APAC at Cohesity:  With an unprecedented level of employees now home-working, and return to offices delayed until 2022 for many, corporate IT must navigate the digital roadblocks created by a highly dispersed team.

Customers in the UK and Australia can deploy the MOVEit Transfer in Microsoft Azure either as-a-Service or in an Azure instance. The software is for customers who need data security compliance, lower latency, or for those who want to maintain data physically within their countries.

GUEST OPINION: For many organisations, creating an effective data protection strategy to support the adoption of remote work and cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly urgent.

Guest Opinion: Six years ago, GDPR made its appearance on the international data protection scene. Since then, the global and local regulatory landscapes around data protection and cybersecurity have greatly expanded.

Global cloud provider OVHcloud and consulting firm Capgemini have agreed on a partnership to address the cloud transformation needs of both public and private organisations.

Minneapolis-headquartered Datasite, a software-as-a-service provider for global mergers and acquisitions professionals, has launched data hosting in Australia to help local companies get deals done quickly and to help them comply with the Australian Privacy Principles.

GUEST OPINION by Tim Roughton, regional sales manager at Varonis: In 2020, many organisations struggled to secure their networks against the expanded threat surface created by the sudden transition to remote work. Businesses sped up plans to move to the cloud and relied on new collaboration approaches and adoption of tools to keep business moving. Companies focused on ensuring business continuity and remote access — all too often at the expense of security.

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has said that the use of Office 365 and Windows 10 was illegal under local data protection laws.