Why you’re struggling with data protection

As we can see, the real sticking points with GDPR and data protection boil down to time and knowledge. When businesses are focussed on, well, business, finding the resource to maintain GDPR in-house is a struggle. Even hiring a data protection officer in-house is expensive. That’s why outsourced data protections officers are so popular – they can take that pain away. But it doesn’t all have to be down to a DPO. My top tip for business is to evangelise and embed ‘GDPR champions’ within your workforce. This can absolutely help maintain data protection and GDPR on a day-to-day basis. The better the general awareness of your workforce, the more likely they are to question dodgy data processing, stopping problems before they start. It also helps out your DPO.

Engaging a DPO also makes business-wide decisions easier, as they can work with your compliance and security teams. For example, ensuring collaboration between your DPO, your vCISO, and services like penetration testing can significantly streamline efforts to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.