Data Protection

11 stories about Data Protection
מטה נציבות האיחוד האירופי בריסל בלגיה

EU Commission: Israeli companies can continue to process personal data transferred from the EU

21.01.24|Omer Kabir
After conducting a review of 11 countries including Israel that have adequacy status for transferring data from the EU, the European Union Commission announced that they would renew Israel’s status, but only if it makes updates to its current legislation
מלחמת עזה בית הרוס ב כפר עזה 5.11.23

Ministries seeking to extend period of access to Israel’s national biometric database, sparking concern about data privacy

07.11.23|Omer Kabir
Since the beginning of Israel’s war with Hamas, in accordance with the emergency regulations, data has been used from the biometric database to help verify the identities of victims. Now, the government seeks to extend these powers to one year, which could endanger the security of the database.
Eureka Liat Hayun Asaf Weiss

Eureka raises $8 million in Seed for security in expanding cloud data use

12.01.22|James Spiro
The company claims to create the industry’s first data cloud security management solution
Glilot Capital and IVC's Israeli Cybersecurity Technology Landscape 2021

Israel’s 2021 Cyber landscape: Which sector will the new unicorns emerge from?

09.02.21|Elihay Vidal
120 companies from 14 industry sectors made it into Glilot Capital Partners and IVC’s Israeli Cybersecurity Technology Landscape map
מעקב אחר אזרחים פרטיות מיקום ניטור

Privacy breaches add insult to Covid-19 injury

04.01.21|Dov Greenbaum
Too many data points and not enough oversight suggests the damage inflicted by the response to the pandemic will stick around even after the disease is eradicated
ועידת הדיגיטל והמובייל אסף שגיא   מנהל הפעילות של Snapchat בישראל

“We’ve never shared information with China,” says general manager of TikTok-Israel

12.12.20|Omer Kabir
Assaf Sagy addresses the criticism over the Chinese social media TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, and its alleged involvement in data gathering
BigID דימיטרי סירוטה

Cybersecurity Company BigID Raises $50 Million

15.07.19|Meir Orbach
BigID develops a data protection product that uses machine learning algorithms to track and guard enterprise customer and employee data
גיא לייבוביץ' מנכ"ל קוגניגו

Nasdaq-Listed NetApp Acquires Data Protection Startup Cognigo

27.05.19|Hagar Ravet
Cognigo’s 35 employees will join NetApp’s development center in central Israel
Andrew Dyson

The Rise of the Data Protection Officer

21.01.19|Andrew Dyson and Robyn Palmer
The newly enacted GDPR has given rise to a new role, vital even to companies located outside the European Union—the DPO
דימיטרי סירוטה CA

SAP, Comcast Back Israeli Data Protection Startup BigID

30.01.18|Meir Orbach
BigID announced a $14 million Series A round on Monday. The company employs machine learning and identity intelligence technologies to track and protect organizational customer and employee data
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SAP to Use New Acquisition to Address EU Privacy Regulation

25.09.17|Hagar Ravet and Meir Orbach
SAP announced its acquisition of Gigya, a company that manages 1.3 billion customer identities for clients such as the NBA, Forbes and Tommy Hilfiger