Posts Tagged 'risk management'

Alphabetti Spagetti is a problem

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We’ve recently joined a Cyber Security forum, to keep up to date with threats from the Interweb:  the stuff of nightmares for IT security people.

(Of course, they themselves can also create headaches – things unexpectedly stop working when a so-called ‘patch’ is installed, because they hadn’t accounted for “Terry in Finance” linking to an old, but desperately needed programme on another server).

But these people are your guardians, the keepers of the keys: it is they who will protect you, and ...

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Just Irritating, or a Symptom of a Bigger Problem?

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A lot of comment on social media is about the impact (or lack thereof) of GDPR on Direct Marketing: “Another company  still sending me emails, despite me saying no!” sums up a whole slew  of Tweets.

I’ll cover some specifics on the opt-in/out controversy and the PECR later  (hint – it’s not as straightforward as people want to believe).  But it got me to thinking – are we “data subjects” focusing on the wrong thing?

The GDPR is first and foremost about ...

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