A new administration in the most influential economy in the world triggers news hopes and expectations in every industry. But if major change were to be on the agenda, what would be the most beneficial, transformative, impactful or prudent new data privacy initiatives that the new US administration ought to introduce? Here’s my top three: The obvious – and trickiest – first area for the new administration is a federal privacy law.
2020 was a lot of things. Unexpected. Tough. Frightening. Frantic. It was also revealing. Most CIOs were asked to enable ways of working and doing business that they had not considered necessary before. Others had maybe always known such moves were wise, but had never been able to dedicate the time, resource or budget to such endeavours. Or, ironically, had never been able to prove the business case. Either way, too many were caught under-prepared.
Today Calligo announces it has completed its fourth acquisition of 2020 – and ninth in three years – with the purchase of Network Integrity Services, a UK-wide IT managed services provider specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services with locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and Hemel Hempstead.
Today Calligo announces it has completed the acquisition of Cinnte Technologies, a Cavan- and Dublin-based MSP, specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services. This marks Calligo’s eighth international acquisition in three years, and the third in Ireland in 2020, reinforcing Calligo’s position as one of Ireland’s largest IT managed services providers in terms of resources, market share and especially breadth of services.
What if all your employees lost access to their data and tools right now? What if every platform you use to communicate with your staff and your customers went down right now? Companies rarely get an advanced warning that a disaster is about to strike. There is no time to prepare, and no time to protect your company from the fallout. That time has passed, and for companies without a business continuity plan, all that is left to do is lament how poorly prepared they were.
When it comes to protecting your organization from IT security threats and cyberattacks, your staff are one of your biggest vulnerabilities. For data protection and data privacy compliance, it is no different. On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed by the European Union (EU). It imposes strict data protection obligations on any organization who target and/or collect data of EU citizens.
