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Due to conflicting demands on his schedule, The Minister of Financial Services and Good Governance, Honourable Mahen Kumar Seeruttun...

We had the pleasure of organizing the Data Protection Conference 2023, on Thursday 26th January to celebrate Data Privacy Day which is...

On the occasion of the Data Privacy day which is celebrated yearly on the 28th of Jan, Ascentrix Consulting is organizing the Data...

What was once a worry for celebrities and VIPs, smartphone-hacking is now a concern for everyone. Indeed, the democratisation of mobile...

According to various reports, on the 5th September 2022, the giant social media Instagram was sanctioned to pay a fine of $400M by the...

In a previous article, we discussed about the consequences of a breach of information. If you follow our page or attended to our...

Traditional security approaches that rely on reactive, detect-and-respond measures and tedious manual processes can’t keep pace with the...

On the 24th November 2021, the National Assembly of Mauritius adopted the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Act 2021. The document defines how...

Since the beginning of 2022 and up to July 2022, the GDPR commission has issued 248 fines. The total amount of fines reached a staggering...

The concept of Data Life Cycle first appeared in 2005. Even if the concept is very new in comparison to the law of demand and supply, it...

In the new digital world ‘’Data is the new gold’’. No matter what type of business that you run, Data is a valuable asset for your...

It's important to update users whenever you make changes to your Privacy Policy in order to comply with laws and regulations. Even if the...

It is undeniable that cybersecurity is essential to protect organisations against threats like phishing or other types of cyberattacks....

We all agree that Cybersecurity is essential for businesses growth and survival. This is why some organisations are investing massively...

In cybersecurity, the term sniffing refers to a method of monitoring and capturing data passing through a given network (legally or...

We all know that Information Security is essential for businesses and most business managers will recognise the importance of protecting...

GDPR requires a comprehensive approach to information security, compliance, governance and risk. Even though security tools are just one...

On April 23, 2022, the European Commission announced that the European Parliament and EU Member States had reached agreement to implement...

On 24 November 2021, Mauritius adopted the new Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Act 2021. The objective of this Act is to improve Mauritius’s...

The first GDPR fine of June 2022 was attributed to a private individual for Non-compliance with general data processing principles. This...