Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have reported previously on India’s new laws that will weaken the privacy offered to users of VPN technology: The new laws require the VPN vendors to record identifiable information about the users, and then make that information available to organisations authorised by the government, so effectively removing privacy from …
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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Big Tach did not like the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill – but when do they like laws that expand the citizens privacy and limits their profits – and after three years of work it is no more. However it was the 81 amendments to the bill that killed it off… …
Update 20 July 2022 – Amazon is taking positive action against fake reviews I am sure you check the reviews on Amazon products before you buy, I know I do, and it has influenced my buying decisions more than once. So it is obviously important that these can be relied …
With the UK Online Safety Bill, on hold at the moment as the Conservatives choose a new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom, here are a couple of stories from around the world where authorities have seized PII information – with or without due process: Amazon Handed Ring Videos to …
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The deadline for implementing a range of infosec directives, issued by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has been extended by 90-days. India extends deadline for compliance with IT Directions • The Register InfoSec in Indian now always seems to …
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So the Indian government issued a confidential document to it’s employees on how to keep things secure and secret. It sounds like a great idea and something you should be doing in your organisation – Octagon Technology has such a document. Our document is version controlled, and I, as CISO, …
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