GTB Technologies Security News Watch – Week of June 25

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In the News

Brexit: Trade deals will force UK to follow EU data privacy laws anyway

by Glyn Moody – Jun 24, 2016 4:24 a.m. PDT

 “Following the UK’s majority decision to leave the EU, the country may need to enact a UK-EU Privacy Shield if it wishes to continue trading with the remaining 27 member states of the European Union.”

 

U.S., EU Agree on Final Adjustments to Data ‘Privacy Shield’

New framework to replace Safe Harbor agreement

By NATALIA DROZDIAK June 24, 2016 6:31 a.m. ET

“The Privacy Shield aims to create a relatively easy way for businesses to transfer personal information about Europeans—from social media profiles to human-resources files—to U.S.-based servers.”

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Visibility: Accurately, discover sensitive data; detect and address broken business process, or insider threats including sensitive data breach attempts.

Protection: Automate data protection, breach prevention and incident response both on and off the network; for example, find and quarantine sensitive data within files exposed on user workstations, FileShares and cloud storage.

Notification: Alert and educate users on violations to raise awareness and educate the end user about cybersecurity and corporate policies.

Education: Start target cyber-security training; e.g., identify end-users violating policies and train them.

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  • Ability to allow user classification to give them influence in how the data they produce is controlled, which increases protection and end-user adoption.
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  • Full data discovery collection detects sensitive data anywhere it is stored, and provides strong classification, watermarking, and other controls.
  • Delivers full technical controls on who can copy what data, to what devices, what can be printed, and/or watermarked.
  • Integrate with GRC workflows.
  • Reduce the risk of fines and non-compliance.
  • Protect intellectual property and corporate assets.
  • Ensure compliance within industry, regulatory, and corporate policy.
  • Ability to enforce boundaries and control what types of sensitive information can flow where.
  • Control data flow to third parties and between business units.