e-Security

The NPC said Cebuana Lhuiller has 72 hours from discovery of the data breach to report the details to the agency and affected data subjects.

The DICT awarded the contract to the lone qualified bidder ICS and its Israeli partner Verint.

The agency said it is mandated to provide oversight on government agencies handling personal data in order to ensure its privacy and security.

The National Privacy Commission has stated that it will launch its own investigation on the DFA?s assertion that the private contractor has caused the non-availability of data and other documents entrusted to it for processing.

In line with Kaspersky Lab?s strategy to aggressively strengthen its growth in the enterprise market, the global cybersecurity company has announced the appointment of MSI-ECS Philippines as its additional local distributor.

An ?interactive attack style,? where adversaries manually maneuver through a network step-by-step, is now increasing in popularity.

Led by Philippine country manager Oscar Visaya and field chief security officer for Asia Pacific Kevin O?Leary, the company issued its predictions for 2019 as it noted that balancing speed with risk has become a tough act lately.

The year ahead will see the APT (advanced persistent threat) world split into two groups -- energetic and inexperienced newcomers who want to play the game and the traditional, well-resourced, and most advanced actors.

The National Association of Data Protection Officers (DPOs) of the Philippines or NADPOP believes that DPOs are mini chief executive officers (CEOs) of their respective organizations and are, in fact, well-positioned to become the next CEOs.

In the same period last year, the Philippines ranked only 35th most attacked worldwide in terms of Web threats.