by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Nearly three terabytes worth of sensitive government files were left unguarded for a week on a wide-open server. Lindsey O’Donnell filed this report in Threatpost. Millions of sensitive files on a storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities were...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Jobs and Salaries
The scramble for skilled cybersecurity people is on. All businesses, even small businesses, need the help of skilled men and women to protect themselves from cyberattacks and data breaches. This makes hiring the right people a priority. Max Emilianov filed this report...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg did not impress in a speech delivered at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany last January 20. In the face of several Facebook privacy disasters, Sandberg talked about all the right things but did not explain how her vision of data...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Tools
Laugh in the face of ransomware with Cohesity’s Pegasus 6.1.1 version of its DataPlatform software. The SAP Hana-certified software allows for the immediate restores of Hana data in case of malware attacks. The Pegasus version also adds additional tools to help thwart...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
A security hole exposed the private tweets of some Android users between November 3, 2014 and January 14, 2019. Twitter has since corrected the security flaw but it may still face an investigation from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The EU’s GDPR allows...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
A fleet of 14 NYPD drones whose sensors can see and record people’s lives even behind walls is getting some pushback from privacy activists who want greater guarantees that the NYPD will only use these technologies in lawful ways. Albert Fox Cahn and Vanessa Gibson...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Australia is demanding that their law enforcement authorities be given the ability to crack the encryption of all phones, including the iPhone, in order to prevent crimes or terror incidents. A law requiring this of all tech companies that sell phones in Australia...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Tech companies that use facial recognition and other biometrics were handed a loss by the Illinois Supreme Court which dismissed a case that would have rolled back a state law limiting the collection of such personal data. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce deplored the...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Deals
Egress Software Technologies, a data startup focused on data privacy and security solutions for unstructured data, announced that it has received $40 million in Series C funding. Here is an excerpt from a report on Egress published in privateequitywire: Egress will...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Deals
As businesses begin to rely more and more on various cloud services, there is now a need for a data privacy and security solution that can bridge the gap between competing cloud services that don’t always play nice with each other. Sonrai Security is attempting to...
