Organisations can apply various security best practices to fulfill their responsibility of protecting consumers’ data online. By MITCHELLE HINGAMore by this AuthorIn a widely connected world with ubiquitous data, one of the hottest topics is consumer privacy and data protection. INTERNAL SECURITYThey also need to come up with effective internal security policies regarding their IT assets — including a data protection one that guides employees on how to handle and protect consumer data. At times, no matter the network security and intrusion detection measures in place, hackers still gain access to the servers holding consumer data. The gazetted Cyber Security and Protection Bill 2016 fails to articulate consumer data privacy and protection issues and the related penalties.

Source: Daily Nation May 14, 2018 18:45 UTC