eSignature Directive

14 April 2014 at 11:13am

Reducing the Impact of Privacy Breaches

Andrew Cormack
Privacy
Breach Notification
Data Protection Regulation
Cybersecurity Directive
eSignature Directive
At present only public telecommunications providers are required by European law to notify their customers of security breaches affecting their privacy, including breaches that the confidentiality, integrity or availability of personal data. In the UK the Information Commissioner has published recommendations on handling privacy breaches, including when to notify those affected.
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20 September 2012 at 12:15pm

ENISA on cyber incident reporting

Andrew Cormack
Breach Notification
Data Protection Regulation
ePrivacy Directive
incident response
eSignature Directive
ENISA have  published an interesting report on cyber incident reporting. Their scope is wide – incidents range from the failure of a certificate agency to storms creating widespread power (and therefore connectivity) outages.
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12 June 2012 at 9:30am

Draft EU Regulation on eIdentities

Andrew Cormack
Access Management
Breach Notification
eSignature Directive
The European Commission have proposed a draft eIdentity Regulation, to replace the current eSignatures Directive (99/93/EC). While the proposal is mostly concerned with inter-operability of national electronic IDs and improving the legal significance of digital signatures, timestamps, documents, etc.
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