Tag: privacy

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; One of the main benefits of cloud storage is keeping a copy of your data somewhere other than your computer. Physical devices are prone to failure, and laptops can easily get lost or stolen. Keeping a cloud backup of your files is key to any good data protection strategy, which is why cloud security is extremely important. Key Takeaways: When choosing a cloud storage service, your top priority should be choosing one with good security and privacy.Zero-knowledge encryption is the first cloud security feature you should look for in a service. It ensures that only ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Mukta Singh; As the increase in data privacy regulation worldwide continues, it is more important than ever for organizations to establish a global framework for data privacy compliance. The IBM Chief Privacy Office (CPO), in partnership with the IBM Global Chief Data Office (GCDO), took on this challenge over three years ago, in preparation for the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The resulting IBM Unified Privacy Framework has helped streamline IBM’s global privacy compliance operations and reduce regulatory risk. The lessons learned from this experience have been used to strengthen ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Founded in the 12th century, Portugal is one of the oldest countries in the world. Sitting on the corner of the European continent, it’s famous for Port wine, amazing architecture, breathtaking beaches and, let’s face it, Cristiano Ronaldo. The country is growing quickly in innovation, and you’re bound to go online while you’re there, so you should protect yourself with one of our best VPN for Portugal picks. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, a virtual private network is a must in the 21st century. Government surveillance is prevalent in many countries, ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Teresa Wingfield. Part 2: Cloud Service SecurityIn my previous post on modern data warehouse security, we looked at issues related to database security. This post will focus on the separate, but related issue of cloud service security, which is increasingly important since nearly half of all data warehouses are hosted in the cloud.[1] The economics of the cloud, the agility with which you can build out and modify services, and the potential to scale almost infinitely continue to accelerate the adoption of cloud data warehouses. As I did in my database security post, I’ll run through some ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Teresa Wingfield. Database Security: Part 1Did you know that security breaches involving the cloud now surpass breaches involving on-premise infrastructure? According to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigation Report, 73% of cybersecurity incidents involved external cloud assets—compared with 27% only one year ago.[1] Having just joined Actian from a cloud security provider, even I was surprised by this tremendous surge. This new insight has motivated me to review the security requirements for a modern cloud data warehouse. The topic turns out to be broad, so I’m writing this blog in two parts: part 1 focuses on database ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: matloff. [This article was first published on Mad (Data) Scientist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. I take my title here from the “too clever by half” paper, “What’s Not What with Statistics” of many years ago. Or I just as appropriately could have borrowed the old Leo Breiman classic title “A Tale of Two Cultures,” comparing the statistics and computer science (CS) communities. Differential privacy (DP) is ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: David Schmidt; Facebook has problems protecting your information. In a year full of concerning reports on how the social media platform polices — or fails to — users’ data, not only is it operating in an unflattering spotlight, but it’s also forcing some users to consider their security. To help those people, we’ve put together this guide to Facebook privacy settings. When Facebook users answered questions about their personalities in a seemingly harmless survey in 2014, they never imagined a political firm involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was behind it. Even though only 270,000 survey ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Rashmi Kaushik; Organizations need to strike a perplexing balance when launching strategic AI initiatives: data needs to be accessible, without compromising privacy regulation compliance or the speed of business innovation. Customer trust and brand reputation are key competitive advantages, so accelerated digital transformation and growth relies on businesses being smart about protecting sensitive customer data while still preserving data utility for AI and analytics teams. Three questions organizations need to confront when it comes to leveraging customer data are: How can initiatives inside and outside my organization work securely with personal information (PI) and ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Rashmi Kaushik; In the post-GDPR era, data privacy has taken center stage yet again due to digital transformation across the globe.  Governments everywhere are enforcing more robust data protection guidelines to address new digital interactions between enterprises and consumers, as well as to increase accountability from enterprises in the use and protection of data. Accordingly, there has been an increasing level of customer concern about how enterprises collect, use and protect their personal data. Enterprises, who are custodians of consumer data, are faced with the challenge of balancing use and protection: they need to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Over the past few years, the VPN market has grown immensely, with exponential growth projected in the early 2020s. It’s clear that the market is growing, too, with VPN companies springing up left and right (we’ve reviewed around 60 already). To sort through the mess, here’s our guide to the best VPN services currently available.  We’ve taken the top 10 options from our VPN reviews, and along the way, we’ll explain why we like each. Additionally, we’ve compiled some information about why you should use a VPN, as well as how we rate VPN services ... Read More