General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

What to expect from the GDPR readiness assessment

Is a mild sense of panic taking hold of some of your colleagues? The implementation of the long-awaited General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR) is inching closer and closer, and discussions will invariably revolve around: “Where to start?”, “Where to go?”, “What will it cost?” If you attend any GDPR event, typically everyone, no matter […]

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Why tell customers about their personal data? Just because GDPR says so?

Transparency is one of the key parts of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with which companies must comply by May 25, 2018. Personally I find this very surprising. I’m not talking about the fact that under this new legislation, individuals gain the right to know what personal data an organization has collected […]

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Seven Data Breach Lessons from research studies: What does a data breach cost?

Blogpost by Laura Begieneman, Senior Consultant Cyber Security & Data Privacy @IBM Security | Two questions keep coming back when I meet customers and partners in GDPR-related sessions. First, when it comes to preparing for GDPR: where to start? Second, what is the true financial impact of a data breach? On the first topic I recently […]

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