Governance and compliance give a growing business the structure and discipline to make good decisions from the start, says SevenC.
Vendor due diligence has outgrown the spreadsheet. Could a centralised risk platform give organisations their visibility back?
Gauteng says it contained an attempted cyber breach, while the DA is seeking an Information Regulator investigation.
The company says it has no exposure to the MIP breach, although a binder holder administering 6 000 funeral policies was affected.
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South Africa’s Information Regulator was established nearly a decade ago, but the data environment it oversees has changed significantly, says chairperson advocate Pansy Tlakula.
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The grace period that POPIA gives public bodies is a key weakness in the Act, says the Information Regulator.
The Information Regulator, South Africa’s data privacy enforcer, reveals it has received over 8 000 security compromise incident reports, with 1 220 reported from April.
Without an enforcing DMARC policy, mail that appears to come from your real domain stands a far better chance of reaching an inbox, says William Despard, MD UK, Advisory Services at Cyberwin.
Before agents are deployed, organisations must confront the fact that an agent is only as safe as the data it can access, says Anju Mammen, customer engineer at Accelera Digital Group.
Organisations can prove that an employee used an AI system, but can they reconstruct what it was asked, what it produced and who relied on it?
The most secure businesses are the ones that know where they are before they spend, says Cyberwin.
WhatsApp privacy policy fails POPIA compliance, says watchdog
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Bob van Dijk steps down as Naspers, Prosus CEO
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