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Contents

1 GDPR – data processing and data subject requests
2 Personal Finance in a Digital World
3 Information Security and Privacy for all
4 Information Security and Privacy for techies
5 Hosting
6 General tech
7 Events
8 Education related

GDPR – data processing and data subject requests

GDPR is probably one of the best legislative changes the world had experienced in terms of information security and privacy.

A lot of companies are still far away from properly protecting their users data and can see this in data breaches and big hacks around the world.

In business, proper security and privacy practices usually means an added cost to the license to operate. It is usually something they do not truly believe in, even though it can mean big costs or even going out of business.

As part of my independent Security and Privacy research, I frequently stumble upon companies like those mentioned above. As a response, I create a report detailing what risks are they exposing themselves and their users too. If they fail to take it into consideration, I will file a complaint to the Data Protection Authority.

These cases are listed below :

FDM.dk and FakturaIT

Some cases and complaints can lead up to unexpected conclusions, like

How to Reduce the Data Protection Authority Complaint Resolve Time by 20% – an analysis of the Danish Data Protection Authority way of handling complaints

Personal Finance in a Digital World

It’s more easier than ever to do any kind of financial operation. Transferring money to others can be done in a second, international transfers can now be done in a matter of minutes rather than days, paying your bills or investing can be done with a single click.

At the same it, It’s also more easier than ever to spend your money or to even get robbed of your money without even realizing.

The following articles detail information security risks around financials. These include tips, my own setup and my way of thinking when it comes to mitigating these risks.

Personal finances

Handling your money safe and fast with Revolut – where I detail my use cases for financial operations, the risks associated with those and what tools do I use to make things safer and smoother
Delayed or canceled flights and how they can impact your money and time. The complaint process as well as the time to get your money can be very long. I’ve had a bad experience with KLM for which I created the most comprehensive complaint (that I know of) . You can use that as example for your next complaint or you might just be interested in the take-aways from going through an airline complaint

Investments

“Cyber Security Risks in P2P Lending: What Investors Should Look Out For” is a guest post on P2PMarketData about online risks that investors usually neglect. On the same topic, I have an infographic about the same Security risks and how can they be mitigated.
Performing your Due Diligence on P2P Investment platforms
I asked 15 P2P Lending Platforms About their Security Practices and their Answers were Unsatisfactory – the more comprehensive version
I asked 4 P2P Lending Platforms About their Security Practices and their Answers could have been Better – the basic version

If you are a high net-worth individual that has his/her wealth spread across various online/offline methods, you and your wealth will benefit to be better informed about online risks. It goes the same, even if you are an average net-worth individual – the only difference is that you have less to lose, but that is still a lot for you. Reach out now for a free security assessments for investors of any net-worth size.

Information Security and Privacy for all

Information Security and Privacy is a not-very-well-understood topic that annoys people. It hard to understand, it’s technical and above all, it makes our life slower because of restrictions, policies, passwords, one time codes and whoever knows what else comes next.

The following articles aim to make Information Security and Privacy more accessible to anybody. You don’t need to be a tech wiz to understand these concepts or even to apply them.

Side benefits of using a Password Manager – besides the fact that a password manager can help you be more secure by storing your passwords in an encrypted fashion, it can also have many other benefits
Must have plugins for Thunderbird – for both security and productivity reasons. These plugins can enable you to be more efficient and give you a better idea of whether the email you have received is legitimate or not
Windows 7 User Endpoint Security – basic, easy and free – setting up your Windows laptop to be secure-enough for the average needs, using free methods.
What do I do after installing Windows 7 – quick ways to disable unnecesarry services that may be a security issue for your Windows 7 machine
Send an encrypted email using Thunderbird in Ubuntu
The all-required backup process – brief on some tools that I use for backup on Windows machines
Getting informed on time is crucial when it comes to security – read about how I stay up to date with security relevant media
How to choose your passwords
Getting rid of spam
Firefox addons (2012)

Information Security and Privacy for techies

Information Security and Privacy down to technical specifics. Includes research and analysis, projects and more.

Hosting

My take-aways from running a hosting business and from hosting my own web projects.

General tech

These can be various issues that I’ve solved and documented, or just something interesting i did that I know i will need again in the future.

Events

Education related

This blog exists since I was studying, thus some assignments, events from back then will be listed below