On May 29, 2019, the governor of Nevada signed into law Senate Bill 220, a new consumer privacy law. The new privacy law amended Nevada’s existing 2017 online privacy law. Effective October 1, 2019, the new privacy gives consumers the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information.
The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002. The law drafted by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley aimed to improve corporate financial governance and accountability while protecting shareholders from accounting errors and fraudulent activity. The real fuel for the SOX law came from the inappropriate financial conduct of three large companies Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom.
You have likely heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and you probably refer to this standard whenever the topic of privacy and data processing arises. But what about outside of the EU? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada) has a twitter account that shares information regarding privacy and an individual’s rights in Canada.
If your organization has a presence in California or does business with California residents, then it probably needs to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). CCPA compliance is no easy task but never fear: Using this checklist and our CCPA audit guide can help smooth the way.
Privileged passwords should be used wisely. These credentials, also called secrets, provide a user with access to protected accounts, systems, networking hardware, cloud instances, and applications. Since privileged accounts also have elevated permissions, passwords to these accounts are often targeted by cybercriminals. In fact, weak, reused, and compromised passwords are the cause of 81% of all data breaches according to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.
GLBA refers to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) which aims to protect the private information of consumers. In this article, we took a closer look at GLBA requirements.
A change is coming for privacy protection. Are you ready? For the past twenty years, most financial services businesses fell under the requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA). This law federally governed the collection and disclosure of customers’ personal financial information. However, on January 1st, 2020, a new privacy rule—the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—wentis going into effect.
The California Consumer Protection (CCPA) act took effect on January 1, 2020, and companies across the globe are scrambling to get their act together to avoid non-compliance penalties. Although enforcement of the CCPA doesn’t officially begin until July 2020, the California Attorney General’s office will still be able to penalize violations that occurred between implementation on January 1 and official enforcement in July.
According to the NIS Directive, Member States should adopt a common set of baseline security requirements to ensure a minimum level of harmonized security measures across EU and enhance the overall level of security of operators providing essential services (OES) and digital service providers (DSP).
Following a long period of political turmoil, the UK government’s Brexit withdrawal bill has completed its passage through the House of Commons and received royal assent. While this deal is merely the starting point of the Brexit process, it sets into motion an intensive period of trade negotiations which, regardless of whether a deal is agreed or not, could have a significant impact on the way that UK organisations operate.
