Are You Still Struggling With GDPR?

Although it’s been nearly two years since the European GDPR legislation was introduced, one expert believes that many businesses are still struggling to get to grips with GDPR compliance.

Speaking to Contact-Centres, Guy Lloyd, from CySure, explained that many business owners still don’t fully understand the consequences of failing to protect personal data.

He added that this lack of understanding is “proving costly” for businesses of all kinds, but offered some simple advice on what exactly a firm needs to focus on.

“A business must have appropriate security to prevent the personal data it holds being accidentally or deliberately compromised,” Mr Lloyd said. His top piece of advice, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, is to take advantage of the government-backed Cyber Essentials scheme.

This helps organisations of all sizes ensure that they have the basic technical controls in place to protect themselves – and their consumers’ data – and to mitigate against threats to business operations.

“Being fully Cyber Essentials compliant is said to mitigate 80 per cent of the risks faced by businesses such as phishing, malware infections, social engineering attacks and hacking,” Mr Lloyd asserted.

Writing for Information Age recently, KPMG global privacy lead Mark Thompson pointed out that the UK’s decision to leave the EU could also result in potential future changes that businesses will need to allow for.

He added that this comes at a point when the transfer of data is more global than ever before, which means regulators are struggling to create legislation that governs data transfers in “an ethical and seamless way”.

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