Cybersecurity Leadership

Cyber attacks present a huge risk to companies and ultimately to society. Companies need to stop relying on insurance and manage cybersecurity effectively.

Personalized customer experiences, automated business operations, and data science-driven insights all depend on the quality and volume of your data. That’s why your data privacy strategy must be more than a policy on ethics.

After promises of a truce, cyberattacks against hospitals suggest that there is no such thing as ethics among hackers. Really?

Beneath the never-ending headlines about data breaches today is the simple fact that companies are collecting, curating and hoarding ever larger and richer archives of intimate information about their customers.

GDPR is officially one year old. How have the first 12 months gone? As you can see from the mix of data and anecdotes below, it appears that compliance costs have been astronomical; individual “data rights” have led to unintended consequences; “privacy protection” seems to have undermined market competition; and there have been large unseen — but not unmeasurable! — costs in foregone startup investment. So, all-in-all, about what we expected.

The costs for a breach in trust are higher than you think — and they appear to be rising.

GDPR should help too clear this up, but in the light of the current Facebook situation companies can no longer ideally sit by and let there employees use data like it’s the “wild west”

As consumers add more and more connected devices to their personal IoT networks, security and privacy are paramount. These networks are only as secure as their weakest link – which is why Isabelle Noblanc, UL, says organizations making connected devices must practice security and privacy by design. Here’s how Noblanc says organizations must rethink identity management and why it’s time to put control in consumers’ hands.

Here are the Fortune 100 companies with the best and worst privacy policies.

Improve consumer trust by understanding the ethical use of data and privacy concerns that affect users as they interact with your platform.

The process required to make ethical AI safe and secure requires more than the coding of virtuous machines.

The unfettered internet has had its day. Going forward, more private companies will be subject to increasingly demanding privacy legislation.

Privacy, security and transparency could become a valued differentiator with a proposition aligned with best practice.

There are compelling reasons for organizations to share data. The challenge is to enable data sharing in a way that protects the privacy of users’ personal information.

Key factors for boards to consider in 2019 around cyber security & privacy: It's now a matter of good governance, good ethics and quite simply good business

Recent research has shown that while consumers are demanding more transparency around information handling, few companies are doing enough to communicate with their customers about data privacy.

The concept of a private space where we can retreat is at risk of becoming a relic of the past.

Uber withheld details of the breach for more than a year and paid off hackers and hushed up the sorry tale for it to finally break in November 2017

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