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Top security threats of 2018: Part 1 - GDPR

Stuart Sumner

14 February 2018 • 4 min read

The EU's GDPR regulation is supposed to help focus business leaders' minds on security. But will it help cyber criminals more than CIOs and CISOs?

2017 was the year when ransomware came of age. With high-profile casualties including large swathes of the NHS, FedEx, Nissan, Hitachi and others, no security threats generated more headlines than ...

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