UK citizens dissatisfied with PII protection; €56m GDPR fines so far;

By Rene Millman for SC Media
Friday, May 17, 2019

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Brussels report finds that €56 million of fines have been handed out since GDPR enacted while UK survey reports that people in the country say businesses aren't doing enough to protect their personal data.

Ilia Kolochenko, founder and CEO of web security company ImmuniWeb, told SC Media UK that this demonstrates that organisations are now truly concerned about complying with various GDPR requirements, including breach notifications.

"However, if we look at this differently, one may reasonably infer that a considerable number of organisations insufficiently protect their data allowing data breaches to happen. Worse, these numbers are just a tip of the iceberg. Nation-state attackers and professional cyber-mercenaries infrequently leave any technical traces, and their intrusions remain widely undetected and thus unreported," he said. Read Full Article