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?
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?
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: 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?Will GDPR change the ethics of data privacy?
The GDPR and other data privacy laws are a clear indication that organisations must start taking great care when collecting and using personal information. You could of course argue that this should have always been the case and that the ethics of handling such data should be obvious. Unfortunately, as history has shown this just isn't the case, the recent past has shown many occasions where personal data has been either lost or misused.
GDPR doesn’t affect me…
...is just one of the things I’ve heard repeatedly over the last few months. I’ve also heard: GDPR is just hype. We don’t have an office in the EU. I don’t know what GDPR stands for. It’s funny how something that will have such a major impact to how an organisation operates, is flying so low on the radar and is often fundamentally misunderstood for those who will need to react.
General Data Protection Regulation: Outside the EU
I recently hadthe opportunity to take on a new region with Veritas, covering a geography from Russia, through Eastern Mediterranean and Gulf countries and down through Africa. As part of my role as CTO for the region, I have been validating the views of companies outside the EU on the topic of theGDPRand whether they see GDPR compliance as something to build into their plans. I generally get asked the same questions by each customer or partner I meet and thought I would share how these discussions typically go.
