All about GDPR Compliant and What you need to know for May 2018 - Tech Talk

All about GDPR Compliant and What you need to know for May 2018

 

THE GDPR was introduced in 2016 and has given businesses 2 years to comply the deadline being 25th May 2018 were all business have to be GDPR compliant. What does GDPR mean? It stands for General Data Protection Regulation this is a new regulation which aims to strengthen data protection rights for individuals within and around the European union that process data of EU residents. 

 

In the last 12 months, there's been a score of massive data breaches, including millions of Yahoo, LinkedIn, and MySpace account details. If this was to happen whilst under GDPR the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access to people data such as name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address. The ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) has to be told about the breach 72 hours after an organisations find out about it and the people impacted also needs to be advised. This will also incur heavy fines for the organisation involved. 

There are 5 Steps to becoming GDPR Complaint. Awareness- understanding the new regulation and what it could mean for you and your company. Evaluation understand who uses and has access to data. Policy - create a policy for a data access within your company. Technology consider putting into place encryption and endpoint management. Education ensure all your staff are aware of the GDPR policy and what it entitles and the best methods for data protection. 

For Example Employees carrying data out of the office to different locations could increase data being compromised. This could leave the company open to large fines and recovery costs and a PR disaster. But you could purchase a USB Flash Drive that is encrypted this could protect the data and keep it safe and personal.  We have a selection of GDPR compliant Encrypted Flash Drives to view these you can click here. Then if the Encrypted Flash drives was to be stolen or misplaced then this would be a security breach not a data breach and may not have to be reported.