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GDPR Compliance: 5 Early Steps to Get Laggards Going

If you're just getting on the EU General Data Protection Regulation bandwagon, here's where you should begin.
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If You Think You're Compliant, Check Again You might think you've closed all the holes, but don't be so sure. According to a recent report by Veritas, although 31% of companies surveyed believe they are already compliant with GDPR, only 2% actually are. The first place to start, of course, is to find out if GDPR even applies to you. As ESET senior security researcher Stephen Cobb once explained in a blog: 'Your firm probably needs to comply with GDPR if: you monitor the behavior of data subjects who are located within the EU; you're based outside the EU but provide services or goods to the EU (including free services); or, you have an 'establishment' in the EU, regardless of where you process personal data (e.g. cloud-based processing performed outside of the EU for an EU-based company is subject to the GDPR).' (Image by Gwoeii, via Shutterstock)

If You Think You're Compliant, Check Again

You might think you've closed all the holes, but don't be so sure. According to a recent report by Veritas, although 31% of companies surveyed believe they are already compliant with GDPR, only 2% actually are.

The first place to start, of course, is to find out if GDPR even applies to you. As ESET senior security researcher Stephen Cobb once explained in a blog: "Your firm probably needs to comply with GDPR if: you monitor the behavior of data subjects who are located within the EU; you're based outside the EU but provide services or goods to the EU (including free services); or, you have an 'establishment' in the EU, regardless of where you process personal data (e.g. cloud-based processing performed outside of the EU for an EU-based company is subject to the GDPR)."

(Image by Gwoeii, via Shutterstock)

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10/21/2017 | 3:28:41 PM
Compliance oopsies
All of these tips are important for all data-protection initatives, but especially the first one, IMHO. So many organizations, in my experience, think that they are in compliance when it turns out they have a big ol' OOPS glaring them in the face.

The relationship that TJX had with PCI-DSS comes immediately to mind, for instance. That company's CIO, way back when, before and during its major breach, chose to stand on a relatively shoddy justification of PCI-DSS compliance.
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