Tag: Data Breaches

Kenya’s Plan to Tighten Data Protection Compliance Unveiled in ODPC’s 2025–2029 Strategy

The operationalisation of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) in 2020, with Immaculate Kassait as its inaugural Commissioner, marked a new dawn in Kenya’s data protection landscape. This was just two years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in the European Union. Just five years down the line, the […]...

Urgent need for stronger SACCO regulations amidst digital transformation and surge in savings.

Data from the State Department of Cooperatives showed that savings in Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs) grew by 15.6% to 1.047 trillion from 906 billion as of December 2023. This i...

9 Mar 2024

Professional ethics and data privacy: Social media use for healthcare professionals in the wake of Dr Mbiti controversy

The intersection of social media and professional ethics has become increasingly complex, especially in fields as sensitive as healthcare. The recent controversy surrounding Dr Dennis Mbiti, known as ...

19 Oct 2023

Charlatans taking advantage of data security challenges to masquerade as professionals

In the current era, technological advancements have yielded innovative solutions and numerous challenges. Some of these challenges are data protection infiltration, misinformation and disinformation a...

16 May 2023

Data breach alert: Protecting your sensitive information from cybercriminals

A data breach is any security incident in which unauthorized parties gain access to sensitive data or confidential information, including personal data (ID numbers, bank account numbers, healthcare da...

7 Oct 2022

Mitigating data breach costs

IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 offers IT, risk management and security leaders a lens into factors that can increase or help mitigate the rising cost of data breaches. It is a global report...

23 Jul 2021

Data Breaches and Cyber Security: What you need to know

A few years ago, many corporations used to think data protection meant security of systems. And this was because they thought the word protect meant security in the context of cyber security. While se...