While regulatory compliance is nothing new to cybersecurity professionals, many organizations still have concerns about their compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the rollout of the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Many of the same security controls that organizations measure to demonstrate compliance with regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and HIPAA, or even security due diligence, will serve those organizations well as they seek to establish programs that are GDPR and CCPA compliant.

Let’s take a look at some simple things that you can do to either shore up your existing privacy program or establish a new one.

Device as a Service — the subscription model for deploying mobile devices and endpoints — can not only simplify IT management, but also enable organizations to shift costs from a capital expense to an operating expense. But those attractive outcomes aren’t the only justifications for adopting DaaS.

Here are five additional ways organizations can obtain a positive ROI from a device subscription engagement.

Last year, I consulted with a pastor whose church had suffered a ransomware attack. This particular church had an extensive fundraising operation designed to support a local homeless program, and the ransomware infection impacted all of the data used to solicit donations — and ground those important efforts to a halt.

Like many nonprofits, the church fallen into a common trap: the fallacy of thinking that they don’t have any important data that would attract attackers. But, in this world, every organization is a potentially lucrative target.

Hybrid cloud is often seen as a “best of both worlds” approach, giving businesses the scalability and agility of the public cloud while also allowing them to host some workloads in their own data centers for cost, security or other reasons. But managing the complexity introduced by a hybrid cloud requires specific skills, many of which employees might lack. Consider taking the following steps to ensure that you have the expertise needed to support a hybrid cloud approach.

Microsoft isn’t retiring its Skype for Business Online solution until the summer of 2021, but we’re already seeing a growing number of organizations transitioning to Microsoft Teams. Businesses are finding that their employees really respond to an environment that ties together collaboration tools such as chat, file sharing, calendar, voice and video.

While it’s exciting to see users adopting a powerful tool on their own, it’s also important for organizations to be strategic in how they roll out and support Teams. Here are three ways to ensure your Teams deployment improves operations and helps your organization achieve its business goals.

The decennial U.S. census is about to begin. The work of the census provides crucial information for government agencies, academic researchers and private businesses, but it also opens the door for cybercriminals seeking to exploit the widespread publicity around the census to conduct malicious attacks. We will inevitably witness social engineering attacks from individuals pretending to be associated with the census asking for Social Security numbers, passwords and other sensitive personally identifiable information.

Organizations need to prepare themselves for these inevitable attacks and ensure that their employees don’t fall for scams that accidentally compromise sensitive information.