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The NIST Privacy Framework: An Introduction

By Silvia Bitchkei on 9 October 2019

What is the NIST Privacy Framework and how does it relate to data privacy? Currently in draft stage, the framework was designed to help organizations determine the risk levels of data privacy within their systems. In this article, we take a look at the new NIST Privacy Framework and how it can help your business meet data privacy requirements.

What about Ethics? Privacy and Data in a Changing World

By Silvia Bitchkei on 2 July 2019

Industries and cities across the globe are turning to smart technologies to solve complex problems. In doing so, they generate and analyze subject data to feed intelligent applications. This brings enormous responsibility in ensuring the ethical use of these data. In applying a privacy-enhanced and ethical approach when building technological solutions, we must start by embracing the idea of Ethical by Design. Learn more about data privacy and ethics in our latest blog post.

Data Privacy in Canada: If Data is the New Gold, What is Canada Doing to Keep it Safe?

By Silvia Bitchkei on 18 June 2019

If you owned gold bars, would you keep them safe? Of course you would. Gold is valuable but so is personal data. It may not seem on the surface to have the same value as gold, but to our customers, it can represent their very identity. We must now ask ourselves: what does Canadian data privacy legislation do to help us protect our data? Data privacy has become incredibly important for businesses.

Data Security Regulations for Retail and Manufacturing

By Silvia Bitchkei on 28 May 2019

Organizations that fall under the remit of retail and manufacturing have to often deal with both general data protection regulations and industry-specific ones, such as financial transaction security. This is the third article in our series on data security and protection regulations in different industries, this time about retail and manufacturing. Whilst the first two posts on the finance sector and healthcare looked at very specific regulations, this sector has a wider scope.

Data Security Regulations Overview by Industry: Healthcare

By Silvia Bitchkei on 21 May 2019

Healthcare, like other industry sectors, has become part of the new wave of digital transformation. The industry is heavily dependent on digital data, including highly sensitive patient data. Therefore, healthcare has been the target for cybercrime for many years; health information is a valuable commodity which is not lost on cybercriminals. In this second post about data security regulations, we are turning our attention to data security regulations in the healthcare industry, including HIPAA and HITECH.

Data Security Regulations Overview by Industry: Finance

By Silvia Bitchkei on 14 May 2019

Our economic landscape is filled with a mosaic of specific data security rules and regulations across multiple industries such as finance, healthcare and retail. In this blog article, we provide an overview of some of the most commonly-cited data security regulations for the financial services industry, including GLBA, SOX, PCI DSS, 23 NYCRR 500 and several others.

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