Important points about the General Data Protection Regulation and a list of actions to ensure your business is GDPR Ready.
Answers to the frequently asked questions that we have heard from discussions around the General Data Protection Regulation.
The slide deck from our most recent General Data Protection Regulation Event with LogRhythm and Thales e-security
Metaphor IT have dedicated specialists in GDPR who can help you with understanding the new regulation, how it affects your business and what you should be doing to prepare yourself.
Ben Smyth is our qualified GDPR Practitioner at Metaphor IT. He can help you gain an understanding of the regulation, advise on practical methods and tools for implementing an effective compliance framework and guide you on the role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Stuart Grist has been involved in several presentations and briefings surrounding GDPR both from a technology and process perspective. He can discuss how we can help your business become GDPR compliant from utilising our GDPR Practitioner to taking up our Managed Security Service.
Being ‘GDPR Compliant’ doesn’t exist but ensuring your business is ready for GDPR is a monumental task and the responsibility lies with all departments and should be on the Board’s agenda.
There isn’t a blanket solution that covers all areas of the General Data Protection Regulation, however we can guide you on the areas within your business that need looking at and provide recommendations that you can action.
Technology is one of the topics covered with the GDPR. Article 30 states that “Companies shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia, as appropriate:
(a) The pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data; (b) The ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of systems and services processing personal data; (c) The ability to restore the availability and access to data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident; (d) A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing”.
We can help mitigate risks and provide reasonable steps to protect your data using our Managed Security Service.