Articles in category Data Security

Recordings: Data Security Webinar Series for Protegrity

A couple of posts back I shared a sneak-peak of my webinar on data security for data monetization initiatives. That was one of many sessions we’ve ran for APAC as Protegrity entered that market in 2018. All sessions had been recorded and now I’m happy to say we’ve published excerpts of those videos on youtube. There are bits on Big Data protection, best security practices for analytical workflows, sessions on hybrid- and multi-cloud environments, as well as spotlights on specific technologies (AWS S3, OneDrive, Salesforce, Elastic Map Reduce, Tableau). The videos are 2- to 7-minute-long and go straight to the demo. I do sympathise with those of you that don’t have the time or patience to sit through a one hour webinar – I hope you like this compact format. Check out the playlist below and get to know the superpowers of Protegrity tech!

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GDPR in 10 Steps: a Guide for Small Businesses

By now every business owner in Europe would have heard about GDPR: if it didn’t hit them on the news or through social circles, the swarm of pop-ups and emails announcing policy updates would have been telling enough. GDPR awareness might be mainstream, but it comes a tad too late to believe its practice is correspondingly widespread. Timing aside, putting GDPR to action proves confusing as the regulators provide little guidance in GDPR’s practical application. Among the most puzzled are small companies. GDPR dictates they bear the same responsibilities as governments or corporations, pressuring them to make do with less subject-matter knowledge and fewer budget for the lawyers to get their heads round the regulation.

This checklist summarises the principles behind GDPR from which each business can derive their data protection strategy. I should note that I am not a lawyer but a data security consultant: nevertheless it is my belief that abiding to these principles should guarantee that a business operates legally and securely.

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