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  Discussing the GDPR regulatory agencies' fines from the previous year and the actions you can take this year to improve your GDPR game $1.25 billion – that's the amount imposed by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as fines on companies in 2021 for violating the EU citizens' and companies' privacy and security. The penalties increased from roughly $180 million a year earlier , even though the number of data breaches reported to regulators decreased by 8% to 356 each day on average. However, as Arlen Specter pointed out, "effective security measures do not come cheap." This is why, until November of last year, 36% of firms had no "clear contingency plan in place to mount a response" to a cyberattack, whereas 66% of small businesses are still most concerned about compromising client data. Regardless, while most standards are particularly relevant to managed service providers (MSPs) and software vendors since they have access to ...

  Contemplating the foreseeable changes to be brought to the US-Based Cloud Services due to the Austrian Court's recent ruling The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has primarily been viewed as a source of concern by big tech since its establishment in May 2018, but it is now becoming a massive issue for European cloud service users and providers ranging from merchants to governments. This is mainly because of the European privacy campaigners who gained partial success earlier this year in an Austrian case involving a visitor to a health-related website that employs Google Analytics — the world's most widely used tool by website owners to measure how people use their sites. According to the Austrian Data Protection Authority , the website's proprietors violated the GDPR by transmitting the user's personal data to a company in the United States. That is because sending personal data to any firm in the United States is illegal if the organization cannot g...

  Exploring the reasons to include a file analysis system in your organization to enhance your SharePoint knowledge management results With Microsoft Office 365 at the hub of corporate communication, SharePoint is a straightforward option among enterprises when it comes to collaboration solutions. To put it in context, SharePoint has over 200 million users globally , with approximately 78% of Fortune 500 firms using it and nearly 20,000 new users joining every day. Consequently, considering SharePoint's widespread infrastructure and strong connection with now-essential Microsoft Suite products, it's understandable that enterprises would want to base their knowledge management systems on it. However, using SharePoint for managing the knowledge base comes with some resolvable limitations. Search SharePoint has a search feature capable of obtaining files with broad query criteria, but it soon becomes expendable when dealing with vast amounts of data and more detailed searches. Mai...

  Exploring how and why Europe is boosting its cybersecurity spending, and if you can be a part of it Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity expenditure in Europe has increased dramatically, and according to the IDC's latest Worldwide Security Expenditure Guide forecasts, Europe's cybersecurity spending will expand at an annual pace of 8.2 percent over the next five years (2020–2025), topping $50 billion in value in 2025. The survey also found European organizations continue to regard cybersecurity as their top priority fueling the speculations in spending growth through 2025. This is excellent news for many IT companies since the market for cyber security for the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected data privacy compliance devices in Europe is set to develop because of this tremendous expansion. And countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy are already leading the way in terms of IoT and connected data privacy devices adoption in the region, alon...