Sam Curry, CSO at Cybereason, weighs in on the upcoming GDPR.
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming, and if you have any affiliation with security or privacy in your professional career, you’ve seen vendors and service providers hawking FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) for almost a year now. As with many regulatory issues over the years, I’m reminded of what a consultant friend of mine told me in an early wave: “If you can’t be part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Even with GDPR “going into effect” on May 25th and claims of fines “up to 4% of turnover” all over the mini-sites and brochures of companies seeking to make money off the regulatory-expected boom: don’t panic! Should you take GDPR seriously and make it a big part of your operations and procedures? Absolutely....