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FTC Focuses on Vendors and Secure Software Development: Settlement with Global Tel*Link Corp.
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlement with Global Tel*Link Corp. and two of its subsidiaries—all were providers of products and services to “more than 85% of the U.S. inmate population” and were faulted, in part, for failing to observe secure software development practices.
The State-by-State of Data Privacy Laws
This week, let’s consider the worldwide privacy landscape and the consequences of having a kaleidoscope of varying state privacy regulations.
Five Eyes Issues Guidance for the Deployment of “Smart City” Technologies
This week, let’s review the new “smart city” cybersecurity guidance issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and offer some perspective accrued over time as long as this guidance is overdue.
“It’s Turtles All the Way Down” - FTC Focuses on AWS Security
This week, let’s look at a recent FTC Consent Order, then consider what lessons can be drawn about using AWS. We’ll also explain how IT infrastructure fits the turtle metaphor featured in the title of this post.
Don’t Take Analytics for Granted
This week, the FTC took action against a company for its failure to address its supply chain—and specifically, it analytics and marketing vendors. Sound familiar? Well, we predicted that this would be the year of vendor management.
2021 - The Year of Supply Chain (Vendor) Management
This week, we’re providing our privacy prediction for 2021 - Spoiler: SolarWinds will make this “the year of supply chain management.”
A Huge Software Supply Chain Attack
This week, let’s address what may be the biggest cybersecurity news of the year — the huge supply chain attack that is happening now and what your organization should do to respond.
What the Iowa Caucuses Can Teach Us about App Development
This week, we consider what the Iowa Caucuses can teach us about app development.
What You Should Know about the Data Supply Chain
This week, we turn from current events to focus on the data supply chain, where personal information is transferred from citizen consumers to companies far-far away.