GDPR Compliance Pays Off in Two Years for Large Bank
The focus on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its looming May 2018 deadline has spurred a number of conversations between CIOs and their organization’s legal teams. The questions remain basic but critical: Are we ready? And are we compliant?
GDPR: Y2K or hype by the IT industry to inspire business?
Remember Y2K? If you’ve been in the IT industry for 20 years or so, you certainly will: all the hype that was generated in the 1990s about the impending “time bomb” of the Year 2000. What would happen to IT systems around the world when 2000 came?
Anyone for champagne? My GDPR compliance journey.
Whether you call it eating your own dog food or drinking your own champagne, there is no place like home if you want a test bed to better understand your customers’ needs. Our journey is their journey too, and it’s good to know we’re all in this together. Anyone for champagne?Introducing the Veritas School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for GDPR
This week I had the opportunity to sit down with some of our in-house General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) technical experts, and for three days my brain was assaulted by all manner of classification identifiers and regular expressions.
Does GDPR Make You Want to Cry
If you have even a passing interest in GDPR, you will have known that 25th May 2017 was a significant date because it meant we're just a year away from GDPR becoming law across Europe. This of course sparked a lot of activity from vendors, analysts, regulators and just about anyone involved in the privacy or information governance world. However, a couple of weeks before, on May 12th there was another momentous incident to consider whichmade me wonder about the relevance of Ransomware attacks and GDPR. Obviously, there's a cybersecurity angle to Ransomware but there is also a question about making sure data, especially personal data is protected from malicious activity regardless of where an attack comes from.GDPR legislation forcing business needs to meet IT
When it comes to data, most IT organisations simply provide application and infrastructure services with little or no concern for the volume of data they create. This data is owned by the ‘business’ thatlikewise has equally little concern for the way in which data is served and managed. The day of reckoning is at hand with Personal Data at the forefront of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). How can these two forces where one creates the content and one stores the content be reconciled for the greater good?
