January 28 is recognized as Data Protection Day in Europe, the United States and dozens of other countries including Canada and Israel. It provides a moment to reflect on where data protection regulations stand today and where they are going. At present, seemingly incongruent trends in cybersecurity policy threaten to confuse data protection efforts.

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The LCBO, a major Canadian retailer, recently experienced a cybersecurity breach that compromised the personal information of thousands of customers. The incident, which was discovered on January 10th, affected the client-side of the company’s website through which LCBO conducts online sales. It resulted in the unauthorized access of sensitive information such as names, addresses, email addresses, LCBO.com account passwords, Aeroplan numbers, and credit card information.

Cloud security, let alone SASE, doesn’t work without the underlying infrastructure that provides a consistent “baseload” to deliver the security capabilities integral to protecting users, sites, apps, and most importantly the data.

Companies depend on Tines to protect their business through mission-critical automation workflows. Since the earliest versions of Tines, we’ve enabled users to put humans in the loop through forms and prompts. Workflows pause until a person completes an action via an email or messenger prompt. But these features felt limited, with the need for additional human interactions to take place elsewhere creating time-consuming friction.

Websites are central to business operations but are also the target of various cyber-attacks. Malicious hackers have found several ways to compromise websites, with the most common attack vector being SQL injection: the act of injecting malicious SQL code to gain unauthorized access to the server hosting the website. Once on the server, the hacker can compromise the target organization's website, and vandalize it by replacing the original content with content of their own choosing.