With GDPR on its way, the proper protection of data is paramount for any business looking to avoid the huge fines that regulators are warning will be meted out to those who don’t meet compliance standards. Compliance will be an organisation-wide project involving education on policies and best practices, as well as the actual implementation of system and...

Ever since the big annual John Lewis ad hit our TV screens, businesses across the UK have been counting down the days until the Christmas break. Most companies, apart from those in the retail sector, slow down at this time of the year, and are thus able to take a well-deserved rest, leaving the office behind for a week or so of frenzied last-minute...

A person’s right to be forgotten, or erasure as it’s now called under the GDPR, has received a lot of attention as part of the bigger legislative overhaul. It sounds simple enough, and if we look at it from a consumer’s perspective, the right to be removed from a company’s data bank, if the transaction or relationship between them is complete, is a fair...

No one likes to think of anything going wrong with your business data, but when it comes to the GDPR and the hefty fines the regulator has permission to hand out, it makes sense to know what to do in the event of a personal data breach occurring.

GPDR has been on the minds of business owners and IT teams for some time now and, while the legislation and the vast amount of ground it covers is complex enough, for some it doesn’t go far enough on how to handle technologies that businesses now use as part of their everyday operation. Things such as cloud computing, for example.

Everyone who works with data day-to-day (which is pretty much every business) will be aware of the GPDR and the threat that looms large around penalties for non-compliance by the deadline of 25 May 2018. But, just how big a bite can the regulator take out of a company’s funds, and will all offenders be treated the same, regardless of the infringement?

Legal, compliance and data management teams should by now have been all over the GPDR before most of us understood what the abbreviation even meant, but as we get closer to the deadline, it seems it’s the turn of our colleagues in marketing to worry about what life will look on the other side of May 2018.

It is often the case that a solution to a problem or challenge can be more easily found when you bring fresh eyes to it, and the upcoming GDPR legislation is one of those business cases where this is true. You may be aware that you need to upgrade your data protection policies to meet compliance, but faced with the overwhelming volume of information...

A fundamental element of data protection is having the ability to securely back-up the data your organisation holds, and this is going to be under a lot more scrutiny as the deadline day for GDPR looms.

One of the key criteria of the new General Data Protection Regulation legislation coming in May 2018 is the need to keep data secure (the clue is in the name). While organisations will need to put in place a robust data breach response plan in the eventuality that data is lost, it is also worth keeping in mind that prevention is always better than the cure.