Data

Organisations that operate across multiple jurisdictions should take the time to understand the regulatory requirements they would be subject to in the event of a data security incident, in light of the global cyber risk they face and recent moves by policy makers across the world to bolster data security requirements.

Ireland's data protection commissioner, Helen Dixon, has encouraged life sciences companies to develop new industry codes of conduct in Europe, stating that it allows them to demonstrate their compliance with EU data protection laws and obtain a potential competitive advantage.

Hotel group Marriott International Inc has been fined £18.4m after a large-scale data breach which went undetected for years, leaving millions of customers’ personal data at risk.

Online safety research centre of excellence will look into technology to boost privacy and tackle disinformation, fake news, conspiracies and other online harms

Security experts call for more clarity from Amazon over an apparent leak of customer data

Data processing practices used by Experian broke data protection law, says Information Commissioner’s Office

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252491155/ICO-slams-Experian-over-invisible-data-processing

With the end of the Brexit transition period just weeks away, multi-national organisations will need to re-evaluate how intercompany data is transmitted

A trove of 10 data collections owned by vendor Broadvoice was left exposed online without password protection, compromising 350 million voicemails, some including health information.

73% of enterprises (over 500 employees) accelerated their cloud migration plans to support the shift to remote working across their organizations due to the pandemic.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2020/10/18/83-of-enterprises-transformed-their-cybersecurity-in-2020/#45441ce37c8b

Pharma giant Pfizer exposed the personal information of hundreds of prescription drug takers for over two months due to a cloud misconfiguration, according to new research from vpnMentor.