To talk about information security or cybersecurity is definitely not the easiest of tasks, as developments in this area seem to be happening at a speed that is difficult to keep up with. The cat-and-mouse race between hackers and information security experts is incessant and at a breathtaking pace. Something that appears to be novel today may already be outdated, because in another corner of the world a more efficient solution may have already been discovered or a flaw in the current solution may have been identified that makes it vulnerable.

To ensure greater transparency on public accounts and public services in general, especially after initiatives such as the Transparency Portal, Law 12,527 of November 18, 2011, the Brazilian Freedom of Information Act, was sanctioned. This Act aims to provide access to even the greater public to information regarding Public Administration, regulating Article 5, Item XXXIII, Article 37, Paragraph  3, II and Article 216, Paragraph 2, from Brazilian Constitution of 1988.

The Transparency Portal, at federal level, was developed by the Ministry of Transparency and the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General during the first term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in November 2004, with the initial purpose of giving visibility to financial aspects related to all federal government programs and actions.

In the field of fighting corruption, specialists are unanimous in recognizing the value of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a powerful tool to promote transparency and eradicate corruption globally.

Amid hackers, crackers and several other cyber threats such as viruses, malware, ransomware, phishing, and the like, VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been the sweethearts of the information technology departments for large, medium and small companies. They enable secure remote access for users, protecting their browsing data, especially from identification of their IP address (identification number of a device connected to the Internet), through encryption.

Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Paris, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economic organization composed of 38 member countries. Its goal is to stimulate global economic progress and facilitate world trade.

Several countries have anti-corruption legislation, but few extend this legislation to fight corruption alongside foreign authorities outside their territory. Brazil, incidentally, is in the second group of countries having such norms in its set of laws.

Various news networks around the world, such as CNN and The Wall Street Journal have reported the controversial decision taken by the Israeli parliament – the Knesset, which imposes a limitation on the Israeli Supreme Court. This decision was very controversial, with some seeing it as an attack to democracy, and others as a defense.

Despite the General Data Protection Act (LGPD) having entered into force in 2020 and its penalties in 2021, only on July 6, 2023 did the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD) publish in the Federal register of the current month, the first sanction applied to a company for violating the LGPD.

One of the most significant concerns in today's corporate environments is the risk of confidential information being leaked or shared without authorization. This exfiltration of confidential information is known to occur not only through unauthorized access by an external agent, but also through the actions of a malicious internal collaborator.

Today, after reading an article authored by the renowned legal scholar Wálter Maierovitch, I was taken aback by the way some authorities handle conflicts of interest.

Ethics is a word derived from the Greek vernacular “ethos", which, in turn, means "way of life". Philosophically, ethics focuses on the behavior of a human being within a social environment.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced the payment of the highest award ever paid to a whistleblower since the awards were instituted by the Dodd-Frank Act, sanctioned in 2010.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published a press release on May 22, announcing that the inquiry into Meta Ireland, the Dublin-based company that manages Facebook not only in Ireland but throughout Europe, has been concluded.

In the previous article, the “United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”, created in 2011 and which still influences several laws in many countries, was highlighted.