This past Saturday was “National Data Privacy Day,” did you party? At Axis we made sure all of our closest friends and their friends had masks on. Network World’s Carolyn Duffy rounded up the worst Internet privacy scandals of all time. While there were many memorable, painful breaches in recent years, the one we definitely [...]
Europe is hot in the headlines with its proposed way to significantly reduce the risks associated with storing old data: One-Size-Fits-All and Forget It! According to ZDNet, here are a few highlights: One regulation, less fragmentation The current Data Protection Directive had to be implemented into the legal system of Europe’s 27 member states. This [...]
There are many people who feel PCI is ultimately a thinly-veiled credit card company scheme that makes businesses police themselves- when really, it’s to pass on the liability when credit card companies’ lax security results in a breach. This pass-the-buck-for-blame policy often leads to major fines and priceless damages for smaller businesses, and the case [...]
Hackers unsuccessfully attempted to break into AT&T’s customer information database via its website with an automated script. I took some time to share my thoughts on what the intentions of the hackers might have been in terms of the type of data they were seeking. You can read Fahmida Rashid’s full article here, but here’s [...]
We have been explaining the risks of third party data access for years, and this week Ericka Chickowski of Dark Reading put together an excellent article on some of the costs and concerns associated with it: Data Breach Costs: Beware Vendor Contract Fine Print Organizations often end up paying the consequential costs of data breaches [...]
