Data Privacy Day: What businesses really need to know
Data Privacy Day: What businesses really need to know
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Publish Date: 2026-01-28 17:22:00
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Data Privacy Day (or Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on 28 January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices.
Data privacy best practices include:
- Update Settings: Review and tighten privacy settings on all apps, social media, and smart devices.
- Use Strong Passwords: Utilize unique, complex passwords and activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever possible.
- Secure Wi-Fi: Avoid accessing sensitive information (banking, email) on public, unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
- Check Accounts: Regularly review bank and credit card statements for unauthorized activity.
- Be Sceptical: Watch out for phishing emails and requests for personal information.
But there are other things to consider as well. Digital Journal heard from four industry experts on this key business topic.
Jimmy Mesta, Co-Founder and CTO of RAD Security
According to Mesta, to understand data privacy impacts, dynamic models are needed: “Static data maps aren’t enough. If you can’t see how sensitive data moves, you can’t secure it. Most privacy programs are still anchored in where sensitive data is stored. But in modern, cloud-native environments, risk comes from what’s moving, not from what’s sitting idle. PII flows across services, containers, regions, and APIs faster than legacy tools can track. If you only look at storage, you’re blind to exposure paths, cross-boundary violations, and unauthorized access in flight.”
In turn this affects what security operations do, as Mesta finds: “Security teams need real-time observability beyond data location and into data behaviour. That means understanding how sensitive data is accessed, transmitted, and transformed, and whether that behaviour aligns with policy and compliance requirements. On Data Privacy Day, the call to action is to lock down what you…
