Privacy by design: Building customer trust

Historically, the question of privacy has been the domain of the legal community. This makes perfect sense, because privacy has its roots almost exclusively in laws and regulations. The EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, and similar regulations...

CCPA and Global Consumer Privacy Protection

Back in 2018 with the implementation of GDPR, global retailers with business in the EU faced great pressure to be compliant. This year, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, another tough and impactful data privacy regulation from the U.S., will come into play. Global retailers need to...

RSAC 2020: Blockchain is 'Garbage In', Voting Needs Paper Ballots

SAN FRANCISCO – Cryptography is at the heart of security, especially here at this week’s RSAC 2020. And during the event’s annual Cryptographer’s Panel, industry leaders broke down their top crypto-concerns, including privacy regulations, election security and blockchain. Privacy is clearly a top...

New privacy assessments now included in Microsoft Compliance Score

Keeping up with rapidly changing regulatory requirements has become one of the biggest challenge’s organizations face today. Just as companies finished preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, California’s privacy regulation—California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA—went into effect ...

Embracing Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day, commemorating the Council of Europe Treaty known as Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty on data protection signed on January 28, 1981. This "holiday" was originally celebrated in Europe where it is known as Data Protection day. But in 200...

Making Compliance and Risk Part of DevOps – 2020 Trend #4

In our 2020 Trends blog, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand predicts that fully automated processes will make compliance more rapid and less expensive. As businesses incorporate security into software development lifecycles SDLC, continuous integration-continuous deployment CICD processes will reduce risk a...

California Adopts Strictest Privacy Law in U.S.

A landmark privacy rights bill took effect Jan. 1, 2020 in California and will have broad implications for U.S. consumers and businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA mandates strict requirements for companies to notify users about how their user data will be used and monetized along...

‘Wildly Different’ Privacy Regulations Causing Compliance Chaos

From the General Data Protection Regulations GDPR to the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, the security landscape is becoming increasingly fraught with regulatory efforts. While privacy regulation has positive implications for data security, companies are finding themselves struggling to stay...

Changing California’s privacy law: A snapshot at the support and opposition

This month, the corporate-backed, legislative battle against California privacy met a blockade, as one Senate committee voted down and negotiated changes to several bills that, as originally written, could have weakened the state’s data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act. Though the...

RSA Conference 2019: Microsoft, Google, Twitter on Federal Privacy Regs

SAN FRANCISCO – With the advent of General Data Protection Regulation in Europe and state measures like the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA of 2018 talk about a comprehensive U.S. privacy law has grown louder. However, some privacy advocates fear that any such federal legislation will be a...

Expanded Privacy Protections Granted to California Residents: The California Consumer Protection Act

In late June, California passed a new consumer privacy law--the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA. This statute provides protections to California residents; but it will also have wide-ranging effects outside of California as it will apply to organizations that conduct business in California...