Industry Regulations

Today’s columnist, Borya Shakhnovich of airSlate, says companies such as Facebook have extended work-from-home plans and likely embrace automation. He says companies facing employee burnout from work-from-home policies will find that automation paves the way to enterprise security.

Today’s columnist, Mary Braunwarth of NetSPI, notes that falling short on regulatory requirements can put companies on the hook for hefty fines, such as in the case of Citibank, which was fined $400 million by the U.S. Treasury Department.

The appointments and presumed future appointments draw heavily from people with public sector experience, a move that some praise and others criticize as a failure to consider private sector expertise.

An eleventh-hour executive order will require infrastructure-as-a-service providers to log the identity of foreign clients. The executive order will stand, unless specifically repealed by new President Joe Biden.

Today’s columnist, Rustom Kanga of iOmniscient, says Americans will have to make some tough ethical choices about face recognition technology as political tensions and divisions mount across the country.

Nicolas Reys of Control Risks spoke with SC Media about how companies can position themselves to rebound from a year complicated by the pandemic, climate change challenges and deteriorating U.S.-China relations.

If 2020 brought deadlines tied to various privacy and data protection policies, then 2021 means compliance – with less leniency for companies that fall short of regulations.

If 2019 was an opportunity for privacy advocates to push for preparation ahead of looming data protection deadlines, then 2020 was the year organizations were expected to prove themselves ready. In this second article in our Year in Review series, we consider how legal complications leave all businesses, big and small, with a heavier privacy burden than ever.