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Osano Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification™

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

At Osano, 97% of employees said it is a great place to work compared to 57% of employees at a typical US-based company.

Key Points: 
  • At Osano, 97% of employees said it is a great place to work compared to 57% of employees at a typical US-based company.
  • "Great Place to Work Certification isn't something that comes easily it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work.
  • According to Great Place to Work research , job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a certified great workplace.
  • Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience.

APTIM Helps to Protect 30,000 Coastal Residents with Bayou Chene Floodgate

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Thursday, May 12, 2022

The Bayou Chene Floodgate is the largest of its kind in the world.

Key Points: 
  • The Bayou Chene Floodgate is the largest of its kind in the world.
  • Following APTIMs successful emergency projects in 2016 and 2019, the St. Mary Levee District (SMLD) retained the company to permit and design the Bayou Chene Floodgate.
  • The Bayou Chene Floodgate is a testament to the technical ingenuity and hard work of the APTIM team.
  • SMLD officials expressed their gratitude and emphasized the impact the floodgate will have on their regions residents, businesses, and environments.

Osano Ranks Among Highest-Scoring Businesses on Inc. Magazine's Annual List of Best Workplaces for 2022

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Osano, a Public Benefit Corp focused on data privacy, has been named to Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2022 issue, hitting newsstands on May 17, 2022, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or virtual facility.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Osano, a Public Benefit Corp focused on data privacy, has been named to Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list.
  • And as a mission-driven B-corporation, the company puts a premium on purpose, people, and the planet.
  • More than 750k companies trust Osano to ensure more than 2.5 billion monthly visitors comply with data privacy legislation.
  • Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States.

Greenberg Traurig's Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice and David Zetoony Named 2022 Q1 Lexology 'Legal Influencers'

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

New York, April 28, 2022  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has been named a Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) "Legal Influencer" by Lexology for the first quarter of 2022. David A. Zetoony was also named individually as a "Legal Influencer" in cross-border transfers. This is Zetoony's 12th time being recognized as a "Legal Influencer" by the publication, which selected him from a pool of attorneys from more than 900 law firms.

Key Points: 
  • Greenberg Traurig's Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice was named thanks to several contributors, including Berlin Local Partner Carsten Kociok and Denver Associate Andrea C. Maciejewski , who also contribute to the firm's Data Privacy Dish blog.
  • Zetoony is co-chair of the firm's U.S. Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice and regularly contributes to the firm's Data Privacy Dish blog , which provides updates on the evolving data protection landscape.
  • Zetoony focuses his practice on helping businesses navigate data privacy and cybersecurity laws from a practical standpoint.
  • About Greenberg Traurig's Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice: Greenberg Traurig's Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice is composed of a multidisciplinary group of attorneys and professionals located throughout the world.

PrivacyCheq's New Consentive Wows Users, Solves Dismal Consent Rates, Restores AdTech & Publishing Revenues

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

YORK, Pa., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PrivacyCheq announced today that it has received a development grant from the HBAR Foundation, a $5B endowment fund that fuels the growth of important projects built using Hedera ecosystem. The grant's purpose is to foster final technical development and market launch of PrivacyCheq's new incentive-based consent management system, Consentive.

Key Points: 
  • The grant's purpose is to foster final technical development and market launch of PrivacyCheq's new incentive-based consent management system, Consentive.
  • In recent years, new global privacy regulations have proliferated, requiring users to give their consent, after viewing a clear explanation of private data capture, use and tracking.
  • Typically only 10%-20% of these informed users gave their consent, reducing advertising revenues (and subsequent payments to publishers dependent on ad revenue) by 80% - an unsustainable blow to both industries.
  • To implement Consentive, we needed a distributed ledger service that could handle very high transactional volume and low-cost micropayments concurrently.

90% of Companies Unprepared for CCPA Compliance, 95% Unprepared for GDPR, Says New Research by CYTRIO

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005252/en/
    CYTRIO's State of CCPA and GDPR Compliance Report - as of March 31, 2022.
  • The findings showed that only 11% of companies were fully meeting CCPA requirements, while 89% of companies were either non-compliant or somewhat compliant.
  • From January to March, CYTRIO researched an additional 1,570 companies for CCPA and GDPR DSAR compliance, bringing the total to 6,745 companies to date.
  • This most recent research shows only 10% of companies have deployed an automated CCPA DSAR management solution.

PrivacyCheq Powers Exterro's Post-Cookie PrivacyOps Consent Management Services

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

YORK, Pa., April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PrivacyCheq today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Exterro, a leading vendor of GRC software specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy and IT teams. PrivacyCheq's operational transparency and consent management services will be marketed globally as a key part of Exterro's privacy compliance services.

Key Points: 
  • PrivacyCheq's operational transparency and consent management services will be marketed globally as a key part of Exterro's privacy compliance services.
  • Deployed since 2014, PrivacyCheq's services automate required privacy notices, consent management, role-based dashboards, third/fourth/fifth party notification, logging and verifiable parental consent when audiences include children under 16.
  • Unlike "cookie banner" tools, PrivacyCheq's services facilitate all 11 of the key aspects of a consent ecosystem as defined by Gartner research.
  • Exterro introduced and demonstrated "Exterro Consent", their branded version of PrivacyCheq's consent management services at the 2022 IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC on April 12-13.

BigID joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA)

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

, a leading data intelligence platform for privacy, security, and governance, announced today that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), establishing BigID's commitment with Microsoft to simplify compliance, automate data rights requests and help protect Microsoft 365 customers against expanding privacy risks.

Key Points: 
  • , a leading data intelligence platform for privacy, security, and governance, announced today that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), establishing BigID's commitment with Microsoft to simplify compliance, automate data rights requests and help protect Microsoft 365 customers against expanding privacy risks.
  • The integration enables Microsoft customers to automate end-to-end data subject access, and deletion requests for consistent compliance," BigID Head of Product and co-founder Nimrod Vax said.
  • The BigID & Microsoft integration allows joint customers to manage full end-to-end data rights (DSARs) at scale by discovering, classifying, and connecting personal data to specific individuals, from Microsoft 365 and other apps available through BigID.
  • Members of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, like BigID, offer solutions that benefit from Microsoft's rich extensibility scenarios for compliance to adapt, extend, integrate, and accelerate member solutions for our shared customers."

Exterro Expands Privacy Offering with New Data Discovery and Consent Products

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Exterro Data Discovery automatically finds personal and sensitive data and provides prioritized, actionable views.

Key Points: 
  • Exterro Data Discovery automatically finds personal and sensitive data and provides prioritized, actionable views.
  • Privacy, data protection, and compliance professionals all need an accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive dictionary of their data, said Ray Pathak, VP of Privacy at Exterro.
  • Exterro Data Discovery automates this process and also links identified information with business context information in Exterro Data Inventory and the rest of the Exterro Legal GRC suite.
  • Unique features of Exterro Data Discovery include:
    Easily tracked data related to groups of data subjects.

Spirion Enhances Depth and Breadth of Privacy-Grade Discovery, Classification and Remediation for Sensitive Data

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirion, a pioneer in data protection and compliance, today announced the release of major new enhancements to its Sensitive Data Platform, providing enterprises greater flexibility in how they find, organize, understand and act upon sensitive information to bolster governance, security and privacy programs and meet obligations under California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data privacy regulations.

Key Points: 
  • Today's release increases the depth of Spirion's purposeful data classification schema to support the business context of sensitive information and how it's being used, so organizations can better control and act to protect it through automated remediation.
  • In addition, organizations can now host Spirion Sensitive Data Platform on their own private Azure cloud subscription.
  • "Data privacy and security require more than just knowing where data is," said Rob Server, Spirion Field CTO.
  • Spirion's Sensitive Data Platform, Sensitive Data Finder and Sensitive Data Watcher solutions can now be hosted on a customer's private Azure cloud subscription.