Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 26 | Page 21

LATEST INTELLIGENCE GDPR: YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED W ith GDPR coming into force only a few months from now, we know businesses like yours are concerned about how best to meet the requirements of the new General Data Protection Regulation. We asked more than 1000 attendees of a BrightTALK live panel session what their key concerns are. Let’s take a look, along with the consensus answers from the expert panel, which included Symantec, law firm White and Case, Mandiant and Commvault. With so many respondents saying that they aren’t ready for GDPR or they are unsure of their level of preparedness, our panel believes the best course of action is to take a risk-based approach to data use, storage and compliance. If you believe that you are ready for the GDPR because “it’s just an internal compliance issue”, our panel suggests you look very closely at how much Shadow IT permeates your organisation – because it is where much unknown risk lies. n Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 21