Spring event season is upon us. Review the top 2020 privacy conferences and sessions our RadarFirst team is excited to attend. See you there!
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The Thrills and Chills of Privacy Incident Response
If you think about it, every privacy incident response team navigates obstacles as challenging as any James Bond chase. With short deadlines to comply, ever-changing regulations, and new information about a privacy incident constantly shifting the picture, it’s like doing parkour during an earthquake. And our incident response teams have no stunt doubles!
Read moreA 12-Step Program for Privacy Incident Response Planning
Building a mature incident response process ensures all five phases are covered and a 12-step readiness program is followed.
Read moreRegulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Notifying the State Attorney General
A significant trend in proposed and recently passed U.S. state legislation is the requirement to notify the state attorney general in the event of a breach.
Read moreHow to Use 2020 to Improve Your Privacy Incident Response
Review key privacy incident response metrics and see how your company compares with established industry benchmarks.
Read moreRegulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Specifying Notification Contents
When investigating a story, journalists seek answers to the five Ws and one H: who, what, when, why, where, and how. Similarly, regulators are now requiring organizations to more explicitly share the details of a breach by specifying notification content.
Read moreRegulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Increasing Specificity in Notification Timelines
As regulations continue to condense the timeframe between discovery or awareness of a breach and required notification, either to a regulator or to affected individuals, it’s increasingly critical that processes and systems are in place to streamline incident response.
Read moreChanging Data Breach Laws: Michigan
In 2018, former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law House Bill 6406 (Public Act 649 of 2018). This law exempts entities regulated by the insurance code from Michigan’s Identity Theft Protection Act. As of January 20, 2020, this law is in effect.
Read moreRegulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: The Expanding Scope of Personal Information
In the first nine months of 2019, an average of 7.1% of data privacy or security incidents were breaches that required notification. These incidents had passed through a compliant, multi-factor risk assessment to determine the potential harm for affected individuals. Without this assessment, many companies could report a greater percentage of breaches that require notification. […]
Read moreFacing the Turbulent Twenties: Lessons from The Last Decade of Data Privacy
A new decade has arrived, ready or not. In the data privacy world, the past decade brought profound changes in the regulatory landscape and threats we could never have imagined ten years ago, but also growing awareness and new tools for dealing with the challenges we face. If the past teaches us anything, it is […]
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