Top 5 tips for self-certification to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
Trust is a critical component of any successful organization. Without trust, relationships between employees, customers, and other stakeholders can quickly deteriorate, leading to a breakdown in communication and collaboration. The relationship between privacy and trust is complex and intertwined. Privacy is an essential element of trust, as individuals and organizations are more likely to trust […]
Data Protection Day 2024: In Privacy We Trust
Trust is a critical component of any successful organization. Without trust, relationships between employees, customers, and other stakeholders can quickly deteriorate, leading to a breakdown in communication and collaboration. The relationship between privacy and trust is complex and intertwined. Privacy is an essential element of trust, as individuals and organizations are more likely to trust […]
Leveraging Cybersecurity Strategy to Enhance Data Protection Strategy – Part 2 of 3
Some privacy professionals consider controls frameworks to be ‘their secret sauce’, but I think of them as ‘our secret sauce’ as an industry. I feel we should all share knowledge and should learn more ourselves through that sharing. This article is not meant as a ‘how to’ but rather a ‘did you know’ and ‘look […]
Leveraging Cybersecurity Strategy to Enhance Data Protection Strategy
I have spent the last ten years researching and working in privacy, leading privacy programs and leading privacy teams. I spent the previous twenty years doing similar in cybersecurity, across the financial sector. The two subjects make excellent bedfellows and provide a hybrid understanding of not just the ‘what must be done to be compliant’…but […]
RSA Reflections: Lessons from the 2023 Cybersecurity Conference
One leaves RSA with an innate sense of awe at the sheer size and scale of this event. The orchestration and programme management for a conference serving over 40,000 people is breath-taking. While the conference is intensely educational, it’s also really good fun. There’s a pervasive atmosphere of excitement about ‘what’s next’ and many of […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 at BH Consulting
Today, on International Women’s Day, we celebrate its 2023 theme of ‘DigitALL: innovation and technology for gender equality. I thought it would be good to discuss our experience of gender diversity at BH Consulting. The interesting thing about it is that it was never a thing we ‘designed’. We always simply recruited the best person for […]
The EU Commission’s Path to A Safer and Fairer Online World
New Rules for Online Safety and Fairness: Punch and Judy For those of you who remember children’s puppets shows (Ireland’s ‘Wanderly Wagon’, the UK’s ‘Punch and Judy’, France’s ‘Guignol’ and so on) you may well remember kids in the audience shouting out at puppets on stage ‘he’s behind you’ and the characters shouting back at […]
GDPR certification is here at last – here’s why it’s a game changer
Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May 2018, there hasn’t yet been a way to prove compliance with it. Until now. Luxembourg’s GDPR-CARPA is the first officially recognised certification scheme to be adopted under the regulation. It’s surprising that such a significant development hasn’t received more attention, given the discourse […]
Celebrating Data Privacy Day – or is it Data Protection Day?
Each year, on 28 January, Data Protection Day is celebrated globally. Back in April 2006, the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day and it chose to commemorate the date when the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, known as Convention 108, was opened for signature. Every 28 January, governments, parliaments, national […]