For the second year in a row, the current Allianz Risk Barometer shows that Swiss companies feel most at risk from cyber incidents, such as IT failures, ransomware attacks or data breaches. For your company, the question is not “if” it will be attacked, but “when”, by what means this will happen and how severe […]
Quite pragmatically, software developments in companies are often tested with a copy from the productive system.However, this violates the Data Protection Act and the use of data for testing purposes is not permitted. By using synthesized or anonymized data in conjunction with comprehensive technical and organizational measures, the DSG requirements can be implemented.However, these protective […]
NZZ, 25 May 2021 The EU law has an indirect impact on Switzerland because it applies to all companies that sell products and services to the EU. The EU has given data protection authorities a powerful tool of enforcement – in particular the possibility of fines, and at a level that hurts even the big […]
Switzerland has revised its new data protection law and brought it into line with the European data protection law (EU-DSGVO). The EU would now have to recognise the level of data protection here as equivalent, which is actually already overdue. After the Federal Council broke off negotiations for a new framework agreement with the EU […]