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Data Rights in the USA
Jeremy Nazarian
May 04, 2019Fourteen US States have now introduced legislation around privacy with California’s new law already passed and effective starting Jan 1. Like their European antecedent, the US laws place a significant emphasis on individual data rights whether the right to access, delete or similar. For companies, this requires new capabilities to identify personal data across their[…]
PI vs PII: How CCPA Redefines What Is Personal Data
Jeremy Nazarian
April 11, 2019The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is the first-of-its-kind U.S. law that gives greater privacy rights to consumers who reside in the state. Borrowing many of the core principles of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Act enshrines significant rights for consumers by granting them unprecedented control over their personal[…]
BigID Wins 451 Firestar..
Luis Marte Diaz
March 25, 2019BigID has taken home yet another prestigious industry award, being named a 451 Firestarter by leading[...]
BigID Wins 2019 InfoS..
Luis Marte Diaz
March 06, 2019Privacy Innovation Winner! Here at BigID, we’ve been fortunate to have our platform continuously recognized by some of the industry’s[...]
Access Intelligence M..
Steve Coplan
March 03, 2019Today at the 2019 RSA Security Conference, on the one year anniversary of receiving the 2018 RSA innovation sandbox award,[...]
Big Data Privacy Simp..
Jeremy Nazarian
February 25, 2019Enterprises dealing with personal information across the globe face a similar quandary: their data is both an asset and a[...]
BigID + OneTrust: Bri..
Dimitri Sirota
February 14, 2019GDPR elevated the problem of privacy with consumers and the corporations that serve them. Often forgotten in the recitation of[...]
The US Privacy Wave
Steve Coplan
February 07, 2019Thank you Shawn Sprecker, Senior Manager at Accenture, for collaborating with us on this blog post. The regulatory tsunami that[...]
BigID Wins Award for ..
Luis Marte Diaz
February 05, 2019Building upon our strong end to 2018, we are happy to share that BigID has been selected as the Gold[...]
DSARs: The Essential ..
Dimitri Sirota
February 04, 2019DSARs or data subject access requests are in some ways the most elemental requirement to emerge from the new wave[...]
2019: Global Privacy ..
Dimitri Sirota
January 15, 20192018 was a watershed year for privacy. The passage of the EU GDPR ushered in a new era in which[...]
BigID Expands Global ..
Luis Marte Diaz
January 15, 2019On the Heels of Record Sales Growth in 2018, BigID Adds New SVP Global Sales, VP Pre-Sales Engineering and Sales[...]
BigID Has Earned Adva..
Luis Marte Diaz
November 26, 2018It’s that time of year again, when one of the largest cloud events in the industry, AWS re:Invent, takes over[...]
Keep ‘em Coming! Bi..
Luis Marte Diaz
November 26, 20182018 is coming to a close but the accolades touting BigID as a transformative technology, changing how enterprises manage and[...]
Digital Privacy and E..
Steve Coplan
November 14, 2018The inclusion of digital privacy and ethics drew some media attention on the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for[...]
Another One! BigID Na..
Luis Marte Diaz
November 02, 2018Another One! BigID Named Winner in Golden Bridge Awards It’s been quite the year for BigID, following our recognition as[...]
Consent Governance: M..
Steve Coplan
October 16, 2018As the dust clears since the EU GDPR came into effect, and most companies come to terms with managing their[...]
The Advent of Privacy..
Debra J. Farber
October 08, 2018Move over privacy attorneys, analysts, consultants, CPOs and DPOs. Let’s make room for the Privacy Engineers who can facilitate the[...]
The Role of AI, ML, a..
Steve Coplan
September 24, 2018Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and now Deep Learning have become so overused that they may as well be synonymous with[...]
Rethinking Data Class..
Steve Coplan
August 29, 2018It’s rare to spot a flip phone these days when smartphones are practically ubiquitous. Yet, in the realm of data[...]
Labeling 2.0: Data-dr..
Steve Coplan
July 25, 2018Protecting sensitive data is a defining imperative for information security programs. However, you can only protect what you can see,[...]
GDPR-like Privacy Pro..
Debra J. Farber
July 12, 2018California, which has long set the national precedent for consumer protection in the digital era, has passed the far most[...]
From Big to Bigger: B..
Dimitri Sirota
June 25, 2018GDPR is now the law in Europe. Similar privacy regulations have also been enacted in far-flung countries around the world,[...]
Why Is GDPR Not Compl..
Nimrod Vax
June 24, 2018For the financial services sector, few things are new under the regulatory sun. While the acronym has barely left the[...]
BigID Has a Big Prese..
Luis Marte Diaz
June 01, 2018One of the technology industry’s most well-established and well-attended user conferences of the year kicks off next week in[...]
Survey or Scan? Can Y..
Luis Marte Diaz
May 11, 2018Generating a data map and inventorying personal data for data knowledge are at the top of the to-do list for[...]
Big is the new Cool: ..
Luis Marte Diaz
May 03, 2018Following on the heels of our recognition as the winner of the RSAC Innovation Sandbox, we are doubly thrilled that[...]
Privacy Protection gr..
Dimitri Sirota
April 20, 2018For too long, privacy protection has been a security backwater. That is changing. Not only because of the introduction of[...]
Correlation Vs Classi..
Dimitri Sirota
March 06, 2018With the advent of the privacy era, and the looming General Data Protection Regulation, organizations are starting to realize that[...]
GDPR Article 30 Recor..
Dimitri Sirota
January 21, 2018GDPR introduces a number of challenging obligations for enterprises, ranging from data subject rights to consent management. One of the[...]
Structuring, Unstruct..
Dimitri Sirota
January 02, 2018Many of us have heard that data is the new oil, because it powers modern digital commerce. But the analogy[...]
Seeing Through The Da..
Dimitri Sirota
December 12, 2017IDC estimates that more than half of all IT spending will be on cloud technology by 2018. Companies now store[...]
Always On – The..
Dimitri Sirota
October 25, 2017The EU General Data Protection Regulation is only months away, and more organizations are beginning to contemplate what they need[...]
Seeing Is Believing: ..
Dimitri Sirota
July 23, 2017Data is at the heart of the modern digital business. It defines how users engage and interact with a business.[...]
Right-to-be-Forgotten..
Dimitri Sirota
June 19, 2017On May 25th 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect in Europe to help harmonize personal privacy[...]
Operationalizing Priv..
Dimitri Sirota
May 29, 2017On June 22, 2018 at 11 AM EDT / 5 PM CEST, in conjunction with guests from IBM, DLA Piper,[...]
NY Department of Fina..
Dimitri Sirota
May 09, 2017The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Cybersecurity Regulation sets new standards for financial services firms doing business in[...]
The repeal of the FCC..
Nimrod Vax
April 12, 2017On Monday April 3rd , U.S. President Donald Trump signed a repeal of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission[...]
Data State of Mind: K..
Dimitri Sirota
March 31, 2017Consumer data is a big deal to the consumers who share the data, the companies that collect and process the[...]
Where’s Waldo: ..
Dimitri Sirota
March 05, 2017Big Data creates big problems for finding identity information. As organizations shift to predominantly online interactions with their customers, they[...]
The Risky Business of..
Dimitri Sirota
February 10, 2017The EU GDPR at its heart is about privacy risk. Avoiding privacy violations is about understanding and mitigating privacy risk.[...]
Meeting GDPR Data Sub..
Dimitri Sirota
January 17, 2017Some of the new EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy requirements can seem daunting at first blush to a[...]
5 Reasons Why Persona..
Nimrod Vax
December 04, 2016Data protection tools function with virtually no context of whose data they presumably protect. Discovery and protection of sensitive, confidential[...]
Architecting Privacy:..
Dimitri Sirota
November 28, 2016APIs are a reach multiplier. They can make data and applications programmatically accessible across the extended enterprise or the wider[...]
Privacy Impact Assess..
Dimitri Sirota
October 28, 2016A Privacy Impact Assessment, or PIA, is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained[...]
The Case for Data-Dri..
Dimitri Sirota
October 11, 2016The best way to know your customer is to know their data. Every year organizations collect exponentially more personal information[...]
Privacy Babel: Making..
Dimitri Sirota
September 08, 2016In the world of data privacy, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation has grabbed all the headlines. As much[...]
Can Privacy (Shield) ..
Dimitri Sirota
July 19, 2016The adoption of Privacy Shield by US and EU regulatory authorities, the successor to Safe Harbor that has governed the[...]
Death, Taxes and Brea..
Dimitri Sirota
July 17, 2016The growing incidence of breaches to extract user customer account credentials and more expansive breach notification requirements put enterprises between[...]
Identifying Identity ..
Dimitri Sirota
May 25, 2016What might have been in the past a clear and binary answer to the question of what constitutes personally identifiable[...]
The New EU General Da..
Dimitri Sirota
May 03, 2016The adoption by the European Parliament of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets the stage for profound repercussions to[...]
Can you be data drive..
Dimitri Sirota
April 23, 2016As Bob Marley once observed: “If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from.” The same[...]
Customer Consent; Who..
Dimitri Sirota
March 31, 2016Asking for permission isn’t just good manners any more. Securing and managing customer consent for the use and gathering of[...]
How Minimizing Data C..
Dimitri Sirota
March 18, 2016According to a recent survey published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, some three-quarters of IT and infosecurity professionals[...]
Do You Know Where You..
Dimitri Sirota
March 10, 2016Data about customer preferences and behavior is a critical resource to a data-driven organization. Greater insights into what motivates and[...]
The New Face of Ident..
Dimitri Sirota
March 01, 2016Protecting the privacy of customer data is no longer just a matter of meeting regulations — it’s rapidly becoming a[...]
Privacy v. Security |..
Dimitri Sirota
February 26, 2016Privacy management sits at the intersection of information security, data management and analytics, but is more than the sum of[...]
