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Companies are silent about notifiable attacks
Companies are silent about notifiable attacks

Every third person responsible for cyber security in a company has already been instructed to conceal a reportable attack. The study shows: 14,7 percent then concealed the incident. The global Bitdefender 2023 Cybersecurity Assessment Report proves that GDPR, GDPR and other regulations are too often broken in favor of a good image. Bitdefender has published its 2023 Cybersecurity Assessment Report. The report is based on an independent and anonymous survey of more than 400 IT and cybersecurity professionals from IT manager to CISO in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain in companies...

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GDPR 2022: €1,64 billion in fines
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Data protection regulators across Europe have imposed fines totaling €28 billion since January 2022, 1,64. This means a 50 percent increase in reported EU GDPR fines compared to last year, according to a report by DLA Piper. The increase shows the growing confidence and willingness of data protection regulators to impose large fines for violations of the GDPR. It has also been influenced by the use of the cooperation and consistency mechanisms of the GDPR and the European Data Protection Board, which has repeatedly called for significant increases in fines proposed by Member States' data protection supervisory authorities...

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Can IT forensics protect democracy?

A democracy offers many rights and freedoms to the people who live in it. Guaranteeing and protecting this is the task of the state. Exterro explains how IT forensics can help with digital forensic examinations of data carriers, IT systems and communication links. Smartphones, computers, instant messengers and online services have changed the work of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, police authorities and other federal and state bodies. In order to protect the free-democratic basic order and to ensure the peaceful coexistence of people, they increasingly need solutions for IT forensics. Exterro, provider of legal GRC software that enables e-discovery, digital forensics, data protection and cybersecurity compliance...

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Record fines to be expected from DSGVO / GDPR
Record fines to be expected from DSGVO / GDPR

The EU Commission has further modernized the rules for the data economy. The record fines from the GDPR over the past ten months reveal that companies are already overwhelmed when it comes to complying with existing rules. The task becomes more difficult as new regulations are added and the amount of data grows. It's time for companies to fundamentally rethink their data management to finally regain control and contain compliance risks. GDPR: Already a fine of 1,6 billion euros Around 1,6 billion euros, this sums up all the fines that have been levied against…

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Political agreement on EU-US data protection seems worthless
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Data security expert Detlef Schmuck from TeamDrive: “Political agreement on EU-US data protection is worthless. It is hard to imagine that the USA will submit to the data protection dictates of the EU.” As early as June 2020, the ECJ declared the transatlantic data protection agreement Privacy Shield invalid. "The so-called political agreement on data protection between the European Union and the USA is currently not worth a damn," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck. The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden recently surprised with such an announcement. "The decision of the European...

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