You’ve all seen the ads; “Service X is disrupting the Y industry!“, or worse; “We’re using Artificial Intelligence to disrupt…”.
At this point I will look no further at what you have to offer, because if your product/service could stand on its merits, why would you to resort to using tired and almost entirely inaccurate marketing drivel? And are you really to solve my problems or just make money?
Yes, that was a rhetorical question.
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In Part 1 of this two-part blog ‘series’, I played the part of a security expert (which I do most days), and examined how privacy is changing the face of the security industry.
In Part 2, I have enlisted the help of a lawyer, data protection and contracts expert, who is basically to blame for me getting into this ‘privacy stuff’ in the first place. She also happens to be my sister; Angela Boswell.
In her learned (and earned!) opinion……………………
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If you’re fairly new to this ‘privacy stuff’, you might be wondering why I used the phrase ‘data privacy’, not ‘data protection’. Well, unlike the security industry where we can’t even agree on when to use ‘cybersecurity’, ‘data security’, or ‘information security’, the privacy world has its act together. Hell, security folk can’t even agree on the spelling OF cybersecurity/cyber security!
But for the purposes of this blog, and the Part 2 guest blog to follow, it’s important that you accept my definitions at least, whether you agree with the names or not. It’s the points I’m trying to make that matter, not the nomenclature.
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I’ve heard that the best writers draw inspiration from the people around them. Clearly this works for crap writers too, because I totally stole the phrase ‘distracting innovation’ from a friend of mine. So thank you for that Gareth.
I have dedicated the last half of my career to providing my clients the only thing that makes sense to me; an appropriate security program that supports and enables the needs of the business. I have also chosen to predicate the implementation of that program on the following well established cornerstones. In order of importance:
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It was not that long ago that the most senior security incumbent at the time of a data breach was not only fired ignominiously, but torn to shreds by his/her ‘peers’ as being anything from unqualified, to incompetent, to grossly negligent.
They became nothing short of pariahs.
The vestiges of this ridiculous practice are still rife (take BA for example), but things are changing, and we all have a Recital to thank for it:
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