56% of people surveyed globally are concerned about the use of their data by artificial intelligence solutions and automated decision-making, according to a private survey.
Another of the drawbacks detected is that users consider that they cannot adequately protect their data, mainly because there are no details about what companies collect and do with that information, according to the privacy study carried out by the Cisco company.
This Friday is the International Day for the Protection of Personal Data, for the anniversary of the approval in Europe of Convention 108, to which Argentina adhered.
The Cisco 2022 Data Privacy Study gathered the opinion of more than 4,900 professionals from 27 countries.
From the Argentine company VU Security they highlighted that in the first half of 2021 there were as many security attacks as in the course of 2020 and that a 70% increase in computer crime cases was verified in the country between 2019 and 2020. 2020.
The increase “equivalent to all the crimes committed in the 5 years prior to the pandemic,” said the local firm.
In Argentina, the Personal Data Protection Law No. 25,326 governs, which protects people so that their data is not used without their consent, enables them to be located in public and private databases, update them, delete them or keep them confidential.
“The massification of digitization requires measures that align all sectors, but it is essential to have education and awareness programs that are free and federal,” they considered from the national company.
They stressed that “data is an asset and we must act as its advocates.”
Database attacks “globally against corporate networks increased by a staggering 50% over the previous year,” said Check Point Research.
They specified that the education and research sector was the most affected, with an average of 1,605 attacks per week, closely following government organizations, communications companies, and Internet service providers.
Attacks on the health sector increased 71% compared to pre-pandemic levels, and email became the most popular form of malware distribution over the past two years, now accounting for 84%.
A third study, in this case carried out by the consulting firm KPMG, in Latin America and North America, showed that 83% of the more than 600 people consulted indicated that their company “has suffered at least one cyberattack in the last 12 months, while that 71% claimed to have suffered fraud”.
According to this investigation, of the companies on the continent “many have limited defenses” and stressed that “the shift towards hybrid and remote work is causing existing controls to be less and less effective,” they reported.
In South America, according to Ana López Espinar, leading partner of KPMG’s Forensic Services in Argentina and Co-leader in South America, “the results of the survey are as enlightening as they are worrying, especially if we take into account the greater incidence shown by its results both in terms of probabilities of participation in fraud, and in the face of the risk posed by cyber attacks”.
