How to Protect Your Business Against Cyber Crime
Is your business underestimating the impact of a potential cyber security breach? Even though cyber crime is estimated to cost businesses billions a year, a number of companies don’t understand how they could be under threat. Not sure where to start? Here’s how to protect your business against cyber crime. Understand What You’re Up Against Before taking any other action, work out how secure your business is currently. With a cyber...
Data Protection in Universities under GDPR
Educational institutions and their data protection departments handle and process a huge volume of personal data. Confidential information about employees, students, and applicants is often stored in databases with an extremely low level of data protection. Most institutions pay too little attention to potential dangers of a data breach. Along with that, the budgets for data protection in universities leave much to be desired. But...
General Data Protection Regulation Summary
May, 25 will certainly be a key date for the history of the European Union. On this day, the new version of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take full force. It expands both Controllers and Processors’ commitments to the data privacy issues. According to the rules this document activates, all the companies and organizations across the EU will have to enhance their transparency and accountability measures. To put it...
Strong Customer Authentication According To PSD2: Summary & Checklist
The changes that are guaranteed to transform the EU financial market have finally arrived. On January 13, 2018, the second Payment Services Directive (commonly known as PSD2) came into force in the European Union. In this article, we’ve gathered all the information on PSD2 security and strong customer authentication requirements to help the existing and future companies to get ready for these changes. So let’s get started with our...
The Pros and Cons of Different Two-Factor Authentication Types and Methods
Along with the first digital devices rose a need to ensure the security of stored data and to differentiate access to various functions. A variety of methods for unambiguous authentication of users on which security is based are called authentication factors. These include codes, logins, passwords, certificates, hardware keys, and so on. The whole set of authentication factors can be divided into three groups: Factors of knowledge...