AI GDPR Compliance Reassurance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union's sweeping new data privacy law, is triggering a lot of sleepless nights for CIOs grappling with how to effectively comply with the new regulations and help their organizations avoid potentially hefty penalties. The GDPR, which goes into effect May 25, 2018, requires all companies that collect data on citizens in EU countries to provide a "reasonable" level of protection for personal data. The ramifications for non-compliance are significant, with fines of up to 4% of a firm's global revenues. Companies that do business in Europe have been scrambling to put new processes and platforms in place to improve data security and facilitate GDPR compliance at a time when data volumes are exploding across legacy IT and multi-cloud environments. A logical starting point for GDPR compliance, therefore, is a full understanding of where data is stored and how it is used.