Data Privacy & Protection News

Artificial Intelligence Poses Major Business Risks. Here’s How to Safeguard Your Tomorrow. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide. It's transforming rapidly, and even sweeping day-to-day media headlines. For instance, Tesla recently introduced its humanoid robot, Optimus, with Kim Kardashian's promotion of it on her social media channels helping make Optimus more of a global household name. Meanwhile, SpaceX launched India’s GSAT-N2 satellite, set to revolutionize broadband and in-flight connectivity across the region. SpaceX now has rockets ...

By |2025-04-28T02:58:00+00:00October 22nd, 2024|Data Privacy & Protection, Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC|

Data Breaches on the Rise: How GRC Solutions Can Protect Your Business

Data breaches? They are rampant, with no end in sight. What's critical to know? Everyone has sensitive data that never changes including Social Security numbers, birthdays, or past medical diagnoses. When this information is stolen in a breach, the consequences can be long-lasting and severe. Unlike log-in passwords or a stolen credit card, which can be reset or replaced, Personal Identifying Information (PII) remains with ...

By |2025-04-28T02:52:42+00:00September 30th, 2024|Data Privacy & Protection, Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC|

NIS2: Your Ultimate Guide to Compliance

With the European Commission (EC) accelerating the adoption of “advanced technologies”, innovation is rapidly rising, but in turn has resulted in significant increase in cyber threats. To combat this, the pressure is on for firms to adopt the NIS2 directive, which mandates stringent security measures, risk management protocols and incident reporting standards, collectively enhancing protection of critical infrastructures and sensitive data. Ultimately minimizing the risk ...

Watch our GRC Webinar: Benchmark Results and Best Practices

Your stakeholders are increasingly inquiring about what your organization is doing in terms of ESG, Ethics, Risk, Cybersecurity and Assurance. It is imperative to mature your GRC function and to truly understand what a mature GRC function looks like in terms of methodologies, ways of working, and level of integration between your second and third line of defense (compliance and risk). Register below to watch ...

Strengthen Your Defense Against Phishing Attacks with SAI360’s Data Protection Courses

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, phishing attacks remain one of the top cybersecurity threats faced by businesses globally. According to Proofpoint, 83 percent of organizations fall victim to a scam attack every year. These attacks aim to trick employees into disclosing sensitive data or granting system access, leading to potential breaches that can cost millions in damages. Phishing attacks and phishing schemes are becoming more ...

By |2025-04-28T02:55:26+00:00February 2nd, 2024|Data Privacy & Protection, Ethics & Compliance Learning|

Addressing GRC Privacy Challenges: Key Insights and Best Practices

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) privacy challenges carry immense weight in our interconnected world, especially as organizations strive to protect personal and business data. (Consider how, for instance, even a car’s license plate can now become personally identifiable information.) Organizations spend a significant amount of time and effort solving ongoing challenges to safeguarding the privacy of individuals and businesses. Below we highlight a few key ...

By |2025-05-08T21:04:00+00:00November 14th, 2023|Data Privacy & Protection, Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC|

Watch GRC: Key Trends and Predictions for 2024 and Beyond

In this on-demand webinar, we delve into the dynamic world of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) globally. We cover some of the key risks encountered by firms globally, the regulatory responses, and the persistent challenges in compliance and governance. This session also dives into our expert predictions for the coming year, helping you navigate and excel in the evolving GRC environment. Our GRC experts ...

Prime Therapeutics Puts Compliance at its Core with SAI360

Case study at-a-glance Prime Therapeutics provides pharmacy benefit management services for health plans, employers and government programs. It is collectively owned by 19 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, subsidiaries, or affiliates of those plans. It manages the entire administrative lifecycle of pharmacy benefits, from when a member is given a prescription to when a pharmacy fills it. Ryan Sloneker is the Compliance Systems & ...

Exorcising Spreadsheet Demons: A Halloween Tale about Digitization 

It was a dark and stormy night. A Canadian electricity transmission company lost $24 million by bidding on unnecessary transmission routes. The reason? A simple spreadsheet error as a result of a copy-and-paste Excel mishap.  Want another scary tale? On yet another dark and stormy night in 2005, a large U.S. manufacturer suffered a severance error due to a typo in a spreadsheet. This mistake ...

By |2025-05-09T19:59:12+00:00October 18th, 2023|Data Privacy & Protection, Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC|

How to Respond to the 2023 Cyberthreat Landscape – Gartner® 

Organizations face an infinite number of potential threats as they pursue digital transformations and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Security and risk management leaders must refine their strategy to identify and better adapt to the most important trends across the cyberthreat landscape" – Gartner®, ‘How to Respond to the 2023 Cyberthreat Landscape’.  This detailed Gartner report offers insights and recommendations from 17 Gartner analysts on ...