White Papers in Standards, Regulations & Compliance > General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Classification By Design: The Foundation Of Effective Data Protection Compliance

This whitepaper report looks in detail as to why achieving compliance across a wealth of new international data privacy laws and regulations is such a growing challenge. It will cover: How data breaches are driving regulatory change Data protection and the COVID-19 pandemic, an escalating external threat...

Overcoming Third-Party Risk Management Challenges

Provident Finanial Group is a FTSE 250 company, and - with 5,700 employees serving 2.4 million customers - Provident understands the strong expectation to work with thirdparties who respect their customer and employee information. New frameworks such as GDPR, recent data breaches, and increased customer expectations...

Restructuring Your Third-Party Risk Management Program

Percona is an industry leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-grade support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. After noticing gaps across their third-party security and privacy...

Information Security Management System (ISMS) Industry Standards: A Help Guide

With privacy laws becoming global and mainstream, the concept of "adequate security" is becoming a legal mandate across many verticals. The overlap between privacy and security calls for new ways for these two teams to collaborate, communicate more effectively, and use common tools. Use this guide to learn the...

Controlling Website Vulnerabilities to Protect Against Data Leakage and Magecart

2018 saw a further increase in the frequency and complexity of cyberattacks being levelled at organizations and in several cases, resulted in high-profile customer data breaches. Global companies such as Facebook, Uber and Quora all fell victim to cyberattacks that left them facing huge financial costs and...

Website Security for the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape

Website breaches are becoming a daily occurrence. Organizations, entrusted with millions of customer data points, are failing to protect consumers adequately and as a consequence, losing valuable data. Despite the expectation that companies should be prepared for both accidents and deliberate attacks, there is a...

Retailers: In the Cybercrime Firing Line

Retailers and ecommerce organizations are responsible for handling a wealth of customer data, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, addresses, credit card details and passwords. However, this access to customer data makes retailers one of the biggest target groups for cybercriminals....

Privacy & Security: Finding the Balance

In the past, the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy has been uneasy and even ill-defined. But today, in the post-GDPR era, the relationship is clear, and so is the legal and compliance path forward, Download this whitepaper to learn more about: The relationship between security & privacy; How...

2019 State of IBM i Security Study

The 2019 State of IBM i Security Study analyzed 244 servers and partitions, drawing participants from finance, retail, manufacturing, and many other industries. This is not a recurring study of the same systems each year, but general trends are apparent. The study, now in its 16th year, reveals concrete, impartial...

Mitigating Business Interruption & Data Corruption Risks

Businesses today face far more invasive and potentially damaging threats than at any time in the past. Your organization's IT security is the first line of defense against incidents that can cause business interruption and data corruption. While backup should underpin every business' data protection strategy, it...

CISO's Guide to Compliance: Improve Security with PAM

With major data breaches in the news and high-stakes security regulations in effect - including GDPR and the NIS Directive - CISOs worldwide are scrambling to comply with IT standards and avoid hefty fines. Privileged Access Management (PAM) streamlines compliance and overlaps with the requirements of many...

Industrial Control System Security and How PAM Can Help

What makes Industrial Control Systems (ICS) so vulnerable to cyber attack? How does this impact the wider enterprise? With IoT-connected equipment and remote management on the rise, security has never been so important. Privileged Access Management (PAM) secures and controls access to critical Industrial...

GDPR & ISO 27001: Cross-Mapping PAM Requirements

Two heavyweight cybersecurity regulations, ISO 27001 and the more recent GDPR, are major concerns for CISOs and IT teams worldwide. Conveniently for CISOs and IT teams, however, the two standards have much in common. Here we offer a cross-mapping of the security requirements of each regulation, and how PAM can help...

GDPR Without the Hype

Implemented in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, marked a colossal shift in the treatment and handling of personal data. And while the GDPR is an EU policy, its effects aren't limited to European borders.

Pre and Post-GDPR Era: What You Need To Know

A lot has been said and written about the GDPR from a multitude of perspectives: analysis of its many articles, projections into the potential impact of the regulation and more than a fair share of dire predictions and claims about how an organization's GDPR compliance efforts could simply be resolved by investing...