Despite the GDPR being marked as a clearer to understand regulation, it’s still a mine field of legal and compliance requirements, interpretations and uncertainty.
The purpose of this blog series is to help you understand the fundamental requirements of GDPR by peeling back the layers of legality, bureaucracy and spin.
It’s safe to say that the numbers have stolen all of the GDPR headlines:
Let’s put some context around these figures, based on existing Data Protection (DP) regulations.
In the UK, under the Data Protection act of 1995 the maximum an organization can be fined is £500k.
While £500k may be a lot to SMB organizations, to a global enterprise it’s a risk worth taking versus investing millions in Data Protection.
Currently in the US, organizations have 90 days to notify of a data breach.
In realistic terms, it means that if a breach is discovered on a Friday, the organization will need to work across the weekend to gather all of the required information to ensure they meet the notification deadline.
The premise behind the EU GDPR is to guarantee the fundamental right of an EU Citizen to privacy and enforce the right of erasure.
Organizations will need to be able to respond to a DSAR, with common questions likely to be along the lines of:
‘Do you hold any of my data’
‘What is that data’
‘Please delete my data’
‘Please provide my data in a format that can be transferred’
‘Is my data secure’
As simple as these questions may appear, the ability to respond to them is anything but simple.
Imagine for a moment that you had to provide answers to the above questions for a single person right now.
Can you do the following:
Now, imagine you are asked to do this for 10 data subjects, 100 data subjects, 1,000 data subjects.
The scale of task becomes apparent and this is before you add the layers of legality and regulation.
Part 2 of this blog series will look at how you can start to address GDPR compliance.
Mark Wilson is a Director of Product Management at STEALTHbits Technologies.
He is lead Pre-Sales consultant in the EMEA region and a key member of the global Product Marketing team.
Mark has 18 years’ experience working in virtually all technical support and consulting roles across both public and private sectors in the UK, EMEA and Globally.
Areas of specialism include compliance, data governance, IAM, migrations and consolidations.
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