INFORMATION PRIVACY
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With technology now affecting all aspects of modern life, there has never been a more important time to think about your privacy and protect it from an ever-widening range of threats. Global privacy regulations, escalating data loss, explosive growth of personal data and customer expectations have combined to make data privacy a business imperative. But manual processes prone to error cannot evolve to meet these new challenges. Secur01 Data Protection and Privacy Services help organizations stay up to date with leading data security and privacy services and comply with regulations in a constantly evolving threat and regulatory landscape.
63% of companies data compromised within the last 12 months
Data is one of the most important assets a company has. With the rise of the data economy, companies find enormous value in collecting, sharing and using data. Information privacy may be applied in numerous ways, including encryption, authentication and data masking – each attempting to ensure that information is available only to those with authorized access. These protective measures are geared toward preventing data mining and the unauthorized use of personal information, which are illegal in many parts of the world.
Description
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. When something is private to a person, it usually means that something is inherently special or sensitive to them.
When data that should be kept private gets in the wrong hands, bad things can happen. A data breach at a government agency can, for example, put top secret information in the hands of an enemy state. A breach at a corporation can put proprietary data in the hands of a competitor. A breach at a school could put students’ PII in the hands of criminals who could commit identity theft. A breach at a hospital or doctor’s office can put PHI in the hands of those who might misuse it.
The simplest, easiest thing to do to drastically change the collection of private information from you is to use open source software. uses search engine DuckDuckGo. You can also find open source internet browsers, email providers and file sharing programs. Because the code behind open source software is available for anyone to see, the security and privacy of that program is, in theory, being reviewed by many more coders and experts, to confirm it’s secure, than a closed source program.
In addition to all the personal information they unwittingly expose on social media, people are lulled into a false sense of security by things like private (incognito) browsing, which provides far less protection than the name implies, and browser fingerprinting, an insidious technology which can identify a particular browser, even when using a VPN. Your IP address is logged by almost every internet resource you visit. The sites you browse are all logged by Google Analytics; Facebook tracks everything you open that has a Facebook Like button on it, whether you’re logged into Facebook or not. Your device leaks it’s GPS location to literally thousands of apps, along with your contacts, text messages (SMS) and a huge amount of other data, almost all of which any ordinary person would consider private.
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It’s the core of Europe’s digital privacy legislation. This new EU framework applies to organisations in all member-states and has implications for businesses and individuals across Europe, and beyond.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which was passed in 1988. It was developed to control how personal or customer information is used by organisations or government bodies. It protects people and lays down rules about how data about people can be used. The DPA also applies to information or data stored on a computer or an organised paper filing system about living people. Organisations that do not adhere to the rules set out by DPA risk prosecution by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) where fines can reach up to £500,000 and even imprisonment. The Data Protection Act was replaced in May 2018 by the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
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With the advancement of the digital age, personal information vulnerabilities have increased.
The Privacy Act offers protections for personal information, which it defines as any recorded information “about an identifiable individual.” It is a measure that has been implemented in the face of more and more IT breaches. It is important to protect your data and that of your customers and employees, it only takes one breach to make the situation worse.
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Our application protection solution will help you protect your information privacy by enabling encryption, firewall rules and more to your needs.
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