Nicola Searle, Digital Economy Fellow at the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London, joins Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson on this episode focused on privacy and the cybersecurity of trade secrets. Nicola served as a government economist at the UK Intellectual Property Office from 2013 to 2015 and authored two Oxford University Press manuscripts on intellectual property. Before her academic career, she was a financial associate at Goldman Sachs in the US and Italy. Ann and Nicola discuss privacy trends and standards for 2022, why trade secrets seem more vulnerable to cyberattacks, and how companies can create ecosystems that provide their customers with comparable value for their data.  

In This Episode You Will Learn:    

• How to help future proof your data protections  
• Creating an ecosystem that helps protect intellectual property. 
• Why trade secrets can be more vulnerable to cyberattacks. 

Some Questions We Ask:    

• What predictions do you have on privacy and standards in 2022?  
• Why are trade secrets more vulnerable to cyber attacks than intellectual property? 
• Why is transparency and creating awareness necessary as we collet more customer data? 

Resources:   

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