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Should You Buy or Build Your Automated Privacy Incident Risk Assessment Tool?

In today’s privacy data breach landscape, organizations without an automated privacy incident risk assessment tool cannot scale. Some privacy and security teams will consider the option of building their own tool, but that may not be the best approach. Continue reading to learn why.

Data Breach Notification: How to Assess Your Incident Risk Assessment

The goal of privacy incident risk assessment should be to ensure compliance without overspending on notification. And with privacy regulations and regulatory guidance changing constantly, that’s quite a balancing act. One way to help keep your footing is to compare your organization’s notification rate against industry benchmarks, then use your internal metrics to pinpoint problems.

Why is RadarFirst the Perfect Privacy Hire?

Finding the right privacy hire is imperative and often tough, especially these days. The Great Resignation has subsided and the pool of potential candidates grows as we continue to read about layoffs (mostly tech firms), but the demand for privacy hiring is still present and challenging. Many companies have one or more openings in their privacy or extended compliance/security team. Continue reading to learn how to fill a headcount with the perfect employee.

What’s New in RadarFirst? HIPAA 4-Factor Summary Feature

HIPAA provides four risk factors (known as HIPAA 4-Factor) to determine if a breach of PHI has occurred. Organizations must demonstrate to the OCR that there is a low probability that PHI has been compromised based on a risk assessment. Continue reading to learn more about HIPAA 4-Factor and how RadarFirst can automate this assessment for reporting.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How Privacy and Security Can Work Together

If you’ve been keeping up with us on social media, you know it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We’ve shared great tips all month long on how to protect yourself and your business while online. To close out the month of October, we’d like to offer some final advice to privacy and security teams while they work together to thwart and respond to cybercrimes, while safeguarding brand trust.

Other States Take Note: California State Assembly Passes AB 2273

The California assembly recently passed a comprehensive age-appropriate privacy legislation– the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, also known as AB 2273. If approved by Governor Newsom, the Act would require businesses that “provide online services, products, or features that are likely to be accessed by children” to increase their level of privacy and safety protections.