This blogpost reviews Data Security and Privacy Trends as 2020 comes to an end. When COVID-19 triggered the move to working from home, many organizations sharpened their focus on reducing latency. They hustled to get the basics in place -- laptops, connectivity, etc....
Privacy
The Nitty-Gritty on 5G Privacy
Would you rather a have crane collapse on you while strolling through a city or have your every move tracked by Big Brother? That’s the type of painful data-privacy tradeoff individuals and companies could be making once more 5G networks are up and running --...
Charting Your Course in Data Privacy: Implications for Third Party Risk Management Programs
Regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have triggered a convergence of third party risk management and data privacy. The complexity of navigating the nuances of each regulation and the operational...
2020 Information Security and Data Privacy Perspectives: 5 Not-So-Pretty Predictions
When we asked Santa Fe Group Vice President and CISO Tom Garrubba to gaze into his crystal ball last month, he identified several events related to Third Party Risk Management that he thinks may materialize this year, including: Privacy breaches (those caused...
7 Ways to Ensure Organization’s and Vendor’s Data Privacy
California consumers embarked on a new data privacy journey this year by wading through thousands of emails detailing corporate privacy policy updates related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that took effect Jan. 1. The 500,000 or so companies with...
5 Ways To Help Shared Assessments Members Be #PrivacyAware
January 28th is an internationally recognized day dedicated to creating awareness about the importance of privacy and protecting personal information. Industry participants across the world have joined together to create a global community that respects privacy,...
Predicting the Privacy Weather Report for Third Party Risk
Trying to predict the privacy weather report for third party risk? The dialog on online privacy is heating up in Washington D.C. this week as hearings and industry discussion on the merits of federal privacy legislation were prompted in the wake of the passage of the...
European Invasion? Congressional Hearings Suggest need for U.S. Version of GDPR
Might the U.S take a page from the European Union’s (E.U.) data privacy playbook? Could the California Privacy Act spread to the rest of the country? These possibilities were on the minds of participants in recent Congressional hearings concerning data privacy. The...
Going Back 2 Cali: The Golden State Passes Two New Data Privacy/Security Laws
The California State Legislature recently completed a data privacy/data security two-step by passing two new laws with significant third party risk management implications for a broad collection of companies. In late September, California enacted what some are...
What Would Data Subjects Want?
Last week at the Shared Assessments Annual Summit on third party risk, I had the chance to co-facilitate a half-day workshop on The Pivot to Codification of Best Practices of Third Party Risk Management Best Practices, plus moderate a discussion panel on the current...