Neil Ford Archive
This week, we discuss a high-profile German data breach, the top worst passwords of 2018, the resignation of NHS Digital’s CISO, and Microsoft’s latest patches. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2019 – for Friday, 11 …
This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. As is now traditional, I’ve installed …
It’s been six months since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) took effect, and for many people fatigue has already set in: mention the GDPR and you’re likely to get little more than a weary shrug in response. “That didn’t …
DPIAs (data protection impact assessments) are a type of risk assessment that identify the risks affecting the security of personal data, and work out their likely effects. They are a useful accountability tool: the results of a DPIA will help …
This week, we discuss Amazon’s exposure of customer names and addresses, jail sentences for two TalkTalk hackers, and a data breach affecting a City of York rubbish app. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 November. …
Two Tamworth men have been jailed for their part in the 2015 cyber attack on TalkTalk that saw the personal information of 156,959 customers compromised. Matthew Hanley, 23, and Conner Douglas Allsopp, 21, both of Tamworth in Staffordshire, received prison …
This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. …
In addition to data subjects’ rights to be informed, of access, to rectification, to erasure, to restrict processing, to data portability and to object, the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) sets out requirements relating to automated individual decision-making, including …
This week, we discuss a data breach affecting HSBC’s US customers, an XSS vulnerability in Evernote and a critical RCE vulnerability in Apache Struts Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 November. Here are this week’s …
This week, we discuss the stalemate between Bloomberg Businessweek and Supermicro, Apple and Facebook’s call for a federal data privacy law in the US, and what the Morrisons Appeal Court ruling means for every organisation Hello and welcome to the …
