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DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | September 2014
September 2014 update
Cyber security is about risk reduction, not risk prevention. No system can ever be 100% secure, particularly when constrained by financial resources and the exposure to human error or behaviour.
The law governing data security is similarly not absolute. For example, the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") demands that an organisation has "appropriate" technical and organisational security measures.
DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | August 2014
August 2014 update
Cyber-attacks remain a regular feature of news headlines. This month, reports circulated that Russian hackers have allegedly carried out the world's biggest ever data theft, amassing 4.5 billion user credentials.
The hack was identified by US security experts Hold Security and, if true, could be the largest publicised breach in history.
DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | July 2014
July 2014 update
Catch up with the latest cyber risk legislation and regulatory developments with the DAC Beachcroft Adviser Newsletter
Data protection and privacy is only one element of cyber risk and there have been a number of recent public and private sector initiatives which highlight the need to mitigate cyber risk from a business disruption perspective.
DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News
June 2014 update
Catch up with the latest cyber risk legislation and regulatory developments with the DAC Beachcroft Adviser Newsletter
As the implementation of the European Data Protection Regulation drops further behind schedule, one could be forgiven for thinking that all is quiet on the cyber risk insurance front.
Is counting the cost of Cyber Crime adding up?
The latest CSIS report on the global cost of Cyber Crime has been released and it raises a number of interesting points. It attempts to look at the global issue of Cyber Crime and put a dollar impact on the total cost affect.
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