Following my Networkshop talk on logfiles, I was asked at what point logfiles can be treated as “anonymous” under data protection law. Since the GDPR covers all kinds of re-identification, as well as data that can “single out” an individual even without knowing their name, that’s a good CompSci/law question: the work of Paul Ohm […]
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Porridge, Bears and Logfiles
Two common concerns in incident response are (a) not having the data needed to investigate an incident and (b) not being able to find signs of incidents in a mass of other data. My Networkshop talk (see “Making IT Safer… Safely”) looked at how the GDPR principles might help us to get it, like Goldilocks’ […]