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?6.7KViews4likes1CommentGDPR: 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?6.5KViews4likes0CommentsGDPR Training Essential for Compliance
It’s no longer a question of if, it’s now a question of when a data breach occurs. You don’t have to monitor the news too closely to see the frequency and scale of these incidents - Uber, Equifax, Saks Fifth Avenue . The list of the worst continues to grow.5KViews5likes0CommentsAnyone 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?4.8KViews8likes0CommentsIntroducing 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.4.2KViews16likes0CommentsDoes 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.4.1KViews4likes0Comments