Data protection: prepare now or risk disaster

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been barrelling towards us for some time. The regulation itself is now in place and will come into full force in early 2018. And it promises to catch a lot of organisations on the hop, as it requires them to think about how they manage and secure data without necessarily offering them solutions to the problem. In this interview, Tim Erridge, director of cyber advisory at Context Information Security, talks about the challenges organisations face in becoming compliant, as well as the opportunities. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been barrelling towards us for some time. Yet it promises to catch a lot of organisations on the hop. The regulation requires firms to think about how they manage and secure data without necessarily offering them solutions to the problem. In this interview, Tim Erridge of Context Information Security talks about the challenges organisations face in becoming compliant, as well as the opportunities.