30 June 2021. Unless this is your birthday, this date probably fills most of you with some trepidation. No need – let’s turn the anxiety into excitement that POPIA is finally here (after TEN. YEARS). If you still feel like you’re lagging behind, stop panicking and be cool. Get [...]
R58.4 million. This is the average cost of a data breach today according to IBM. It is no surprise then that cyber resilience is top of mind for CEOs the world over. But what does this mean for compliance officers? What should we be doing to address data breaches? And [...]
Nearly a decade into having some of the best plain language legislation in the world, why are we not seeing more comprehensible contracts? Why aren't we seeing more of an effort from companies and their lawyers to improve consumers’ access to information? We’ve worked with many different companies – from [...]
Over the last few months we’ve increasingly been working on redrafting all different types of policies for various different clients. From HR policies to information governance policies. It may seem like a tedious job, but we love it because it gives us the opportunity to correct those things that are [...]
It turns out SA’s largest recorded data breach was traced to a Web server registered to a real estate company based in Pretoria, Jigsaw Holdings. They are a holding company for several real estate franchises including Realty1, ERA and Aida. Apparently, this website had exceptionally lax security and contained a [...]
A ‘Bring Your Own Device’ policy (BYOD Policy) is essentially a set of rules applicable to employees who want to use their personal devices for work purposes. No policy is a one-size-fits-all, so you should use this as a guideline only and determine what will work for your business. Here [...]
All businesses have risks. Ideally, a business would mitigate all the risks, but this simply isn’t practical – you have to prioritise. At a high level risk management is intended to: * Identify the risks, * Prioritise the risks * Propose solutions to the risks (and get them accepted), * [...]