Posts by Stephen Treglia

The creation and ultimate effectiveness of the Privacy Shield is a critical element to the future of commercial relationships between the United States and EU.

Whose job is it to protect corporate data? Management comes to mind first, typically a CISO, CSO or CIO. Next we think of security professionals and IT managers, who currently feel they bear the brunt of the responsibility for data security (our own survey showed many fear a breach would mean losing their job).

The past 6 months have been turbulent ones for US organizations that handle the personal data of EU citizens. It’s a time of major reform. While we do not yet have final resolution, the building blocks for a modern cross-border data privacy agreement have begun to take shape. In a new article for CSO Online, The impact of the new Trans-Atlantic privacy law, I talk about the history of...

The ease with which digital data can seamlessly move across geographic boundaries has strained the ability of lawmakers throughout the world to develop privacy laws and regulations that can protect their citizens’ personal information wherever that data may exist. These days, when even the smallest of start-ups can effortlessly operate globally, the difficulties caused by these strains are becoming more and more apparent.

In 2014, data breaches rose to such an extent that we called it “The Year of the Data Breach.” Unfortunately, data breaches in 2015 exceeded those figures, with 781 breaches of 169 million records exposed, up from the 83 million records exposed in 2014. Breaches are up, with mega-breaches affecting the US Government’s Office of Personnel Management, CVS and T-Mobile. And there’s no end in sight.