Qualys continues its GDPR preparedness blog series with a post focused on the importance of assessing risk from vendors and other third parties in order to remain compliant with this customer data protection regulation.
The Qualys blog series on GDPR preparedness and compliance continues this week with a post on how prioritizing your vulnerability remediation work is essential in order to appropriately prevent data breaches and stay on the right side of this regulation.
In this second installment of our blog series on GDPR readiness, we explain how organizations need full visibility into all hardware and software involved in the processing, transmission, analysis and storage of EU residents’ personal data, so they’re able to protect it and account for it as required by the regulation.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally goes into effect in May 2018, imposing strict requirements on millions of businesses and subjecting violators to severe penalties. Today we begin a weekly series in which we’ll zero in on specific GDPR requirements and highlight how Qualys can help you with compliance. In this first installment, we’ll address how getting your organization ready for GDPR can have significant business advantages beyond achieving compliance and avoiding penalties.
The looming deadline for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is shining the spotlight on a foundational InfoSec best practice: A comprehensive IT asset inventory. The reason: GDPR places strict requirements on the way a business handles the personal data of EU residents. For example, companies must know what information they hold […]
Small and medium-sized businesses have increasingly become reliant on web applications – whether they are developed or procured, to drive their operations, engage customers, and scale their businesses. The increasing reliance on online operations is underscored by 84% of businesses using digital technologies. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic forced a surge in online business […]
Introduction In today’s tech-driven world, cloud computing has completely changed how businesses store and manage their data. It offers many advantages, like flexibility, scalability, and cost savings, making it a go-to choice for organizations of all sizes. Keeping your data secure, especially in databases, is crucial, as cybercriminals always seek ways to gain unauthorized access […]
What is File Access Monitoring (FAM)? FAM is a security practice that involves tracking and logging access to sensitive files. FAM should be included with any File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) solution to trigger alerts when critical host files not intended for regular use are accessed. Importance of FAM in regulatory compliance Data compliance regulations such […]
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”– Winston Churchill While Churchill may not have been the first person to use a variation of this quote, the essence of its meaning rang true then and still does today. In this spirit, and so that we may collectively learn and evolve our […]
An Overview of NIST CSF 2.0 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently updated its popular Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to version 2.0 to help organizations reduce cybersecurity risks. Designed for virtually all industry sectors, from small to medium businesses (SMBs) to larger enterprises, NIST CSF v2.0 represents the first major update in more […]
