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EU regulation on cyber resilience with high penalties
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The European Commission's Cyber ​​Resilience Act (CRA) aims to close the digital patchwork of devices and systems with a network connection. Industrial networks and critical infrastructures require special protection. The EU regulation on cyber resilience can mean millions in fines for manufacturers, distributors and importers. According to the European Union, there is currently a ransomware attack every eleven seconds; in the last few weeks alone, it has hit a leading manufacturer of baby food and a global Tier1 automotive supplier headquartered in Germany, with the latter falling victim to a massive ransomware attack. Such an attack led to the manufacturer Prophete in…

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4 years GDPR: 1,6 billion euros fines, 1.000 violations

A small summary after 4 years of GDPR: data protection authorities sanctioned more than 1.000 violations with fines of 1,6 billion euros. Public service and SMEs with a clearly visible lack of compliance in data protection issues. Violations punished in Germany primarily affect SMEs. On the occasion of the anniversary of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data protection experts from heyData took a look back at all GDPR fine procedures and took stock. Since 2018, the responsible European data protection authorities have punished a total of 1.072 data protection violations with fines of more than 1,6 billion euros. A striking number of data protection violations in the public sector Gaps in data protection…

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