GDPR

The role of CDO’s in building trust

Cloud services have now become the norm, providing SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS platforms for providing services. But this also means the collecting of data and the responsibility to protect it.If 2018 was a year of frantic preparation for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then 2019 quickly shaped up as a year of enforcement,…

Cloud services have now become the norm, providing SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS platforms for providing services. But this also means the collecting of data and the responsibility to protect it.

If 2018 was a year of frantic preparation for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then 2019 quickly shaped up as a year of enforcement, as data protection authorities around Europe took action against transgressors. 

GDPR compliance, there is still no room for complacency. As many have discovered, GDPR compliance wasn’t a one-time project to be achieved by the May 2018 deadline. It was just the first step.

About the author

Jitesh Ghai is the SVP & GM, Data Quality, Security and Governance at Informatica.

GDPR compliance should be a routine aspect of day-to-day business, with the business processes that ensure ongoing compliance is fully operationalised to provide the scale needed across the enterprise. In practice, this means using data management technology to automate some of the work. Simply put, even almost two years on, for most organisations there’s a lot of work still to do.

But there is also opportunity.

Leveraging for faster innovation

At forward-thinking organisations, there’s a growing recognition that the tools and processes put in place to deliver GDPR compliance can also be leveraged for faster innovation, better business anal

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