For organizations, the aftermath of a data breach can be highly devastating. In an interconnected world, a single data vulnerability can cascade into decades of irreversible loss – intellectual, monetary, and reputational. The consequences paralyze even the most established businesses, uprooting them from their foundation. A classic example is that of a Delaware corporation, Blackbaud, […]
The Legal Necessity of Secure Data Erasure in Preventing Data Breaches
A data breach is like the iceberg that sank the “unsinkable” Titanic – it can swiftly bring down even the most powerful organizations. In today’s data-driven world, as per IBM’s 2024 report, the cost of data breaches has skyrocketed to $4.88 million per incident globally, while in the United States, this figure is almost double at $9.36 million […]
The Right to Erasure Blues
Click to learn more about author Lindsey Ullian. When it went into effect in May 2018, Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR) enacted important protections around consumer data, something that has been sorely needed for some time. For too long, businesses had been playing fast and loose with what personally identifiable information they chose to […]