British Airways Hit With Record $229 Million GDPR Fine Following 2018 Data Breach

U.K.-based airline British Airways (BA) is facing a record fine of £183 million ($229 million) after suffering a cyberattack in September last year. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s ...

May 6, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Nearly Half of US Orgs Not Ready for California Consumer Privacy Act Deadline

InfoSec Mag observed something a bit worrisome. "In advance of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) going into effect January 1, 2020, researchers analyzed how prepared US ...

September 4, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

NY Cyber Law Hits 3rd Deadline: Toughest Yet to Come, How To Get And Stay Compliant?

Craig A. Newman, partner at Patterson Belknap wrote: "By today, financial institutions are required to meet their next deadline for compliance with New York’s cybersecurity law. The ...

February 20, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] The May 2018 GDPR Deadline May Fuel New Extortion Attempts

Trend Micro has released its annual security roundup, and it shows several interesting trends that will likely continue into 2018. There is bad news and worse news, with a little bit of ...

February 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Attains SOC 2 Type I Compliance For The Hosted Phishing And Training Product Offerings

KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...

January 3, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Which EU 2018 Directive Is More Important Than GDPR?

If you have sales offices in Europe, or full subsidiaries, you need to be aware of the NIS directive. Peter Dekker at Enisa warned about the following: During 2017, the GDPR buzz reached ...

December 15, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Complex regulations and sophisticated cyber attacks inflate non-compliance costs

The cost of non-compliance has significantly increased over the past few years, and the issue could grow more serious. 90 percent of organizations believe that compliance with the GDPR ...

November 24, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

URGENT - If IT and Marketing are not freaking out about GDPR compliance, you are not paying attention

I found an article about GDPR compliance written by the fine folks of HubSpot, which we use ourselves here at KnowBe4 use for marketing automation. We have customers in Europe, so our ...

November 19, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

We're Still Not Ready for GDPR? What is Wrong With Us?

Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Darkreading wrote an excellent article about GDPR. It is both reprimanding and encouraging to get off our collective butts and do something about GDPR very ...

June 7, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Federal Contractor? Insider Threat Training Deadline June 1- Don't Lose Your Clearance

Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...

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