Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
On data protection, the UK says it will go it alone. It probably won’t.
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Prime Minister listed data protection as an area that the UK could legislate on following Brexit – but diverging from European Union rules on privacy would only complicate things. Read via ZDNet.
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Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Report: The vast majority of interviewed CISO executives (88%) report high levels of stress, a third report stress-caused physical health issues, half report mental health issues. Read via ZDNet.
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Labour Party could be fined up to £15m by the ICO after leadership contender is reported over alleged data breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Labour Party could be fined up to £15 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after one of the contenders in the leadership race was accused of a breach of data protection laws. Read via Computing.
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MI5 failed to disclose failings in handling intercepted data, court hears
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has been asked to revisit earlier judgements following the disclosure of internal documents that show MI5 failed to disclose, to the court and regulators, serious legal risks over the way it handled intelligence data Read via Computer Weekly.
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UK to diverge from EU data protection rules, Johnson confirms
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The United Kingdom will seek to diverge from EU data protection rules and establish their own ‘sovereign’ controls in the field, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (3 February). His comments came despite the EU affirming that the UK should “fully respect EU data protection rules.” Read more via Euractiv
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Over half of businesses are neglecting data sanitisation policies
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- General Industry News
They haven’t formulated them properly and haven’t communicated them entirely, throughout their organisation. Read via ItProPortal.
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Police use of facial recognition ‘unjustifiable’, says Scottish Justice Committee
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Members of the Scottish Parliament have said police use of live facial recognition technology is “not fit for purpose” Read via Computer Weekly.com
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Think beyond tick-box compliance
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A year on since GDPR, many organisations are yet to stop fretting over fines and focus instead on business value Read via Computer Weekly.
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RobbinHood ransomware tricks Windows into deleting defences
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
By subverting kernel memory settings in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, the RobbinHood ransomware can now delete cyber security defences from target systems Read via ComputerWeekly.
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90% of UK Data Breaches Due to Human Error in 2019
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Human error caused 90% of cyber data breaches in 2019, according to a CybSafe analysis of data from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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