Original broadcast date: 11 November 2021 With increasing complexities and changes in the regulatory landscape, organizations must ensure privacy remains central to their business. This means educating and empowering employees to make privacy compliant decisions, driving policy awareness, and automating these policies to improve productivity and reduce costs. Learn how Microsoft is helping organizations safeguard personal data and keep privacy top of mind. Read More

This report from (ISC)² details a global study it conducted with cybersecurity professionals to determine their perceptions of diversity in the cybersecurity sector. Read More

Original broadcast date: 26 August 2021 Privacy rights and the protection of employee data has become an increasing area of concern for many organizations as they navigate a post-pandemic world along with evolving regulations. In this presentation industry leaders Barbara Cosgrove, VP and CPO for Workday, Michael Morgan, U.S. Head of Global Privacy and Cybersecurity for McDermott Will & Emery and Rehan Jalil, CEO of Securiti discuss aspects of protecting employee data. The privacy challenges posed by maintaining vast lakes of unruly personal data demand more than manual oversight. Add to that increased regulatory scrutiny and consumer expectation, and the problem looms large. In this presentation you will learn how software can ease your burden with greater data accuracy and integrity. Read More

Original broadcast date: 23 February 2021  In light of COVID-19, what can and should employers be doing to monitor their employees' health is very much in the news. However, outside of these extraordinary circumstances, tracking workers' health is becoming more prevalent. Likewise, with current technologies there are many more opportunities for employers to monitor employees' activities outside the workplace. This session will look at best practice in Germany, Poland and the UK — three very different jurisdictions. As well as outlining the legal framework, we will provide practical tips and best practice recommendations. Read More

This report, published by the Ponemon Institute, analyzes its recent study focused on the remote workplace. Read More

The IAPP and EY launched a research initiative to gain more insight into the unique ways privacy and data protection practices have been affected by the pandemic. The initial phase of the project included a survey of privacy professionals, taking a deeper look at how organizations, in general, and privacy programs, in particular, are handling the privacy and data protection issues that have emerged alongside COVID-19, such as privacy and security issues related to working from home, monitoring the health of employees, and sharing data with governments, researchers and public health authorities. Read More

As companies, educational institutions, governments and other organizations shift to remote work environments during the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for technologies to facilitate engagement has exploded. In this checklist are key questions for privacy professionals to consider as they navigate this process. Read More

This article, published by Holland & Knight, outlines privacy considerations that employers should be aware of in the "workplace of the future" during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

This statement from data protection authorities addresses their privacy concerns and expectations for video teleconferencing companies to mitigate the identified risks.  Click To View (PDF) ... Read More

This article explores the key issues related to video conferencing security and what consumers can do to ensure safe video calls. Click To View ... Read More

This checklist, published by Defendify, provides guidance on cybersecurity considerations for organizations with a remote workforce. Read More

Original broadcast date: 26 August 2021 Privacy rights and the protection of employee data has become an increasing area of concern for many organizations as they navigate a post-pandemic world along with evolving regulations. In this presentation industry leaders Barbara Cosgrove, VP and CPO for Workday, Michael Morgan, U.S. Head of Global Privacy and Cybersecurity for McDermott Will & Emery and Rehan Jalil, CEO of Securiti discuss aspects of protecting employee data. The privacy challenges posed by maintaining vast lakes of unruly personal data demand more than manual oversight. Add to that increased regulatory scrutiny and consumer expectation, and the problem looms large. In this presentation you will learn how software can ease your burden with greater data accuracy and integrity. Read More

Software designer Surfshark released its Employee Surveillance Report highlighting trends in employee surveillance from March 2020 to March 2021. Surfshark scraped searches for "bossware" surveillance tools across the world and found the use of and interest in employee monitoring was most prevalent in Sweden, the U.S. and Norway. The study also found one in five businesses are deploying surveillance technology while 62% of companies do so to collect productivity data. The report goes on to compa... Read More

This employee fact sheet from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse outlines what employers are allowed to monitor. Read More

Original broadcast date: 11 November 2021 With increasing complexities and changes in the regulatory landscape, organizations must ensure privacy remains central to their business. This means educating and empowering employees to make privacy compliant decisions, driving policy awareness, and automating these policies to improve productivity and reduce costs. Learn how Microsoft is helping organizations safeguard personal data and keep privacy top of mind. Read More

(February 2018) – As an organization, you have obligations to your customers and other stakeholders to protect their personal information. Some obligations are regulatory, some by statute, some by contract, and some simply due to public expectations. This white paper outlines six ways that establishing a privacy awareness training program will help your team to think about privacy and meet these obligations. Read More

(January 2018) – A privacy program cannot be successful without training. There is a Chinese saying: “Those who want to get the job done must first sharpen their tools.” An effective privacy training not only enables an organization’s privacy initiatives, but also enhances an organization’s overall operation in the areas of Privacy by Design and data protection-centric security practices. In this white paper, learn about the essential elements of an organizational privacy training program. Read More

This guide from the Internet Society gives consumers eight simple ways to safeguard their workplaces, including encrypted devices, unique passwords and keeping software up to date.  Click To View (PDF) ... Read More

Last Updated: June 2015 This series of articles will take a look at monitoring programs across industries including recommendations from the privacy consultant, healthcare, IT, finance, government and telecom industries. To start the series, I spoke with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Data Protection & Privacy Principal Jay Cline, CIPP/US, and asked him from a privacy consulting perspective about what every organization needs to consider when establishing a monitoring program. Part 1 – How... Read More

Published: May 2015 Click To View (PDF) In this article, James Sherer, CIPM, CIPP/US, Melinda McLellan and Emily Fedeles provide a list of relevant questions and issues to consider when creating or revamping a corporate BYOD program, including some finer points that may enhance even mature, well-functioning BYOD practices. ... Read More

The Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data published this guide for organizations when considering and implementing bring-your-own-device policies. Click To View (PDF) ... Read More

This sample agreement comes from the 2014 Cloud Security Alliance session Express Yourself. Wear That Technology. Click To View (PDF) ... Read More