As businesses come to realise that they may be required to store some data for decades, encrypted data should be secure well beyond its useful life, and with this in mind, security architect for Benelux at IBM, Christiane Peters, is suggesting that businesses should start preparing now to implement post-quantum data protection. (more…)

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands have released a paper highlighting several security flaws that they’ve discovered in SSDs which mean that data from a flash disk can be recovered in more than one way, even if it’s supposedly self-encrypted. (more…)

The ICO has this month fined two marketing companies a total of £220,000 for contacting nearly 600,000 people on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) list. It is against the law to contact people on the TPS for marketing purposes and the ICO has fined these two companies accordingly. (more…)

Facebook’s latest push towards complete transparency has backfired courtesy of Vice News’s latest investigative work. The digital news platform posed as 100 US senators and found that the Facebook “Paid for By” system was full of flaws and systemic issues that meant the news company could post ads on behalf of the Senators with Facebook’s full approval. (more…)

New segment analysis can help advertisers understand wider brand engagement experiences by facilitating an offline versus online paradigm shift – one that helps advertisers understand how footfall can impact their digital marketing experiences. (more…)

Facebook, the social networking giant, has this month unveiled a new way that marketing professionals can better engage with their desired audience. Facebook’s Stories are a feature whereby people can share content and discover content in a quick way that is promoted from users’ own accounts. (more…)

The ever-growing power of LinkedIn company pages has empowered Vimeo, the social media video publishing service, to provide an end-to-end integration within LinkedIn to promote a new avenue for marketing video content. (more…)

Before this month, you could only use either target CPA or CPC to buy Quora ads. However, the company, Quora, who only last month unveiled its latest Ads QuickStart Program to help advertisers leverage the power of the 300 million+ unique visitors to the Quora platform, has now allowed new bidding systems to help improve the overall experience. (more…)

IT Governance has provided a useful checklist for SME businesses looking for information on how companies, in this GDPR environment, need to respond and report data breaches. This is mandatory for businesses that interact with personal identifiable information as it underpins the GDPR legislation they must adhere to.

IT Governance argues there are 10 Points of Action: (more…)

Symantec Corporation, one of the world’s biggest data security providers, argues that the ever-changing IT landscape means that network managers, IT leaders and business managers need to move away from theoretical “ifs” and instead focus on the probabilities of “when and by whom” their network infrastructure will be attacked maliciously. (more…)