GDPR Compliance for Businesses: Guide to Your Obligations
1. Introduction Achieving GDPR compliance for businesses is not an administrative fashion but a legal obligation with fines of up to 20 million euros or 4% of global annual turnover, and a commercial requirement increasingly demanded by customers and suppliers. Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation applies directly across the European Union, and in the United Kingdom it is retained under the UK GDPR alongside the Data Protection Act 2018. However, most SMEs still treat this issue as a pending paperwork task: they do not know which obligations affect them, what deadlines they face or what economic risk they …
Actions to be taken in case of hijacking or loss of GMAIL account credentials
1. Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide recommended steps to recover a GMAIL account that may have been lost or hijacked. Although the instructions have been checked, it should be noted that ultimately the recovery or not of the account depends on the criteria or criteria of the people at Gmail who evaluate the request and the evidence provided. This means that despite following each step correctly, it is possible that the recovery request will be rejected. 2. Steps for Gmail account recovery 2.1. Factors that can facilitate recovery As indicated in the introduction, the decision to …
What should we do if we become victims of ransomware?
1. What is ransomware and what impact does it have? In this article, we will explore how to proceed in the event that our systems have been compromised by ransomware, something that has become quite common in recent times. Ransomware is defined as a type of malicious program (malware) that encrypts the computer data of infected machines and demands a ransom payment, usually in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Monero, etc.), in exchange for removing this restriction and restoring data access to the victim. A ransomware attack can result in significant financial losses for companies. If they don’t have recovery plans in place …
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