According to new global research from ISACA, only 29% of respondents said their organizations would be fully EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant by the deadline of 25 May 2018. The GDPR impacts entities doing business in or with EU member countries. Last month, ISACA conducted a GDPR Readiness Survey that provides a near-real-time look at readiness levels, top compliance barriers and expected readiness timeframes. Not only are most organizations unprepared

“What’s past is prologue.” This famous line from The Tempest by William Shakespeare is engraved at the entrance of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. It sets the stage for the collection of historical documents held within, reinforcing the importance of being able to go back and refer to history for context to understand what is happening today. The same holds true for cybersecurity. Context helps you understand the who, what, where, when, why and how of an at

Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election. A decade of apparent indifference for data privacy at Facebook has culminated in revelations that organizations harvested user data for targeted advertising, particularly political advertising, to apparent success. While the most well-known offender is Cambridge Analytica—the politi

A recent NIST study shows the current limitations and future potential of machine learning in cybersecurity. Published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study focused on facial recognition and tested the accuracy of a group of 184 humans and the accuracy of four of the latest facial recognition algorithms. The humans comprised 87 trained professionals, 13 so-called 'super recognizers' (who simply have an exceptional natural ability), and a co

Google's Chrome 67 has new APIs for augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as support for WebAuthn spec. Google has released stable Chrome 67 for Windows, Mac and Linux, bringing 34 security fixes and default support for WebAuthn, the new specification aimed at killing off passwords. As announced in April, Chrome 67 would be the first version of Chrome to enable support for WebAuthn by default, offering a way to sign up to websites using biometrics like fingerprints o