The time is ticking for the impending European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement deadline on May 25th, 2018. GDPR is a significant update of the existing 1995 EU Directive (95/46/c) and comes with massive penalties that can reach the greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual revenue. Companies...
CLOUD AND GDPR As the clock is ticking down, we are hearing how many data owners and processors scrambling to ensure compliance programs are in place by the time the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force on May 25, 2018. At the beginning of December, more standards were rolled...
An hour ago, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ended net neutrality. The decision will have a huge effect on the way the internet works, opening the door for internet service providers (ISPs) to exert a huge amount of control over the internet and dictate what you use it for. A little history on the...
Being in the telecom and IT field for over 25 years our firm has to ask if there is a long-term play for IOTA blockchain? Why and how does IOTA fit especially well for the Internet of Things? We decided to take a closer look at the infrastructure requirements, use cases...
PSA: COINBASE WILL NOT HONOR THE FORK. Here Are 3 Things to Do to Survive Any Hard Fork: Make sure your Bitcoins are on a wallet that you control the private key to period. Some examples are Electreum, any hardware wallet (Ledger, Trezor, etc.), and Exodus. Avoid transactions shortly after the...
Earlier this year, Equifax experienced a data breach that resulted in exposure of 143 Million US and European citizens Personal Identifiable Information (PII.) Shortly thereafter, Yahoo confessed to a breach of all One Billion of its user’s information on three distinct occasions that only surfaced following an audit by the acquisition into Verizon. At...
BIP 148 UASF Guide for 1 August Bitcoin will experience a chain spilt on the 1st of August, 2017. It is a user activated soft fork as described in the BIP 148 that is the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148. If a majority of the bitcoin miners do not signal support for the...
Expense management is at the center of every well-managed organization. When assessing a Microsoft enterprise license requirements, most organizations struggle to achieve an accurate inventory which results in unnecessary spending. It is always a challenge to know exactly how many users and devices there are accessing applications and resources on your...
Here at CreedPro, we have hourly conversations with folks exploring the perfect blockchain use case using shared ledger technologies and implementing smart contracts throughout the workflow fabric. In our chats, we lead with a conversation reminder that blockchain is in its infancy. Most folks are learning through proof of concepts where...
US Companies: The GDPR Is Coming! Wondering how the GDPR might affect US-Based companies? You are not alone. The GDPR will apply to US-based companies who offer goods or services to EU data subjects and/or monitor the data behavior of EU data subjects. If a company in the US is not actively...