. It should be a clear and concise document that is accessible by individuals.
the requirements on giving privacy information to data subjects. These are more detailed and specific than in the 
Act 1998 (DPA).
, and has been used by thousands of organisations worldwide. It includes:
; and
. DPOs also have an essential role as intermediaries between relevant stakeholders, such as supervisory authorities, data subjects, and business units within an organisation.
if it: 
also means you can rely on several experienced DPOs rather than just one, which means more hands on deck should you ever suffer a breach.
expert to your organisation. Your appointed DPO will:
;
) and the manner of their implementation and outcomes;
for all 
;
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exposed information belonging to 146 million people around the world, mostly in the US.
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to investigate the breach, found that it affected three distinct groups in the following ways:
(GDPR) in May this year, the investigation took place under the 
instead.
,” said information commissioner Elizabeth Denham.
has successfully implemented a broad range of measures to prevent the recurrence of such criminal incidents and it acknowledges the strengthened procedures which are now in effect.
against our US parent company last year was a pivotal moment for our company. We apologise again to any consumers who were put at risk.”
Risk IQ’s Evil Internet Minute infographic tells you the bad things happening every minute on the Internet:
- 5 successful ransomware attacks
- 9 phishing attacks
- 1,274 new malware variants
- 5,518 records compromised
Any data you look at shows that the scale of ‘Internet evil’ increases every year. The economic impact of cyber crime now exceeds $1.1 million per minute. This is a major corporate risk, irrespective of organisational size, and cyber insurance is an inadequate response – insurers will not pay out where you have been negligent.
The EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) makes the tests for negligence pretty clear: absence of accountability, insufficient corporate governance and countermeasures that do not adequately respond to the frequency and virulence of today’s attacks.
In an environment where four potentially vulnerable web components are discovered every minute, an annual penetration test is only slightly better than not bothering at all. We run penetration tests about once a month; you should be doing them at least quarterly. However, even if you do this, you need to recognise that purely technical responses have limited benefits. Staff are the weakest of your links, particularly as phishing and ransomware attacks get smarter every day. And your supply chain may increasingly be your attackers’ fastest route into what passes for your secure environment. Staff awareness training only every year or two would be desperately short-sighted.
We’re going to see more and more organisations reporting data breaches – it’s now an offence to not report one, and you can be punished with significant fines. The costs don’t stop there. After you report a breach, and undergo investigation, fines and reputational damage, you still have to spend the money to get secure. It therefore probably works out less expensive in the long run to make comprehensive cyber security investments before you are breached (assuming that you haven’t already been breached, and you just don’t know it yet).
) (EU 2016/679 regulation) coming up on 25 May 2018, many organizations are addressing their data gathering, protection and retention needs concerning the privacy of their data for EU citizens and residents. This regulation has many parts, as ISACA has described in many of its 
view is that privacy is an essential part of functionality, the security of the system and its processing activities.
across the entire processing effort for the affected data. This end-to-end need for protection includes collection efforts, retention requirements and even the new “right to be forgotten” requirement, wherein the customer has the right to request removal of their data from an organization’s storage.
demands the 
implemented are proactive rather than reactive. As its principal goal, the system needs to prevent issues, releases and successful attacks. The system is to keep privacy events from occurring in the first place.
, the most important point for organizations to understand about GDPR is transparency. The EU wants full disclosure of an organization’s efforts, documentation, reviews, assessments and results available for independent third-party review at any point. The goal is to ensure privacy managed by these companies is not dependent upon technology or business practices. It needs to be provable to outside parties and, therefore, acceptable. The EU has purposely placed some strong fine structures and responses into this regulation to ensure compliance.
, it has been found that it is good practice to look at these 6 areas for all the collected and retained data, not just EU-based data. This zero-tolerance approach to data breaches is purposely designed to be stringent and strong. Good luck to all in meeting and maintaining the data privacy and security requirements of 
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