Don’t Build Your Data Privacy House Upside Down – Sheila Fitzpatrick – Ep 18

There is no doubt that there are many difficulties presented to organisations when it comes to their data.

We understand it’s an asset, something that, if we make the most of it, can be a significant advantage to us, but of course we also understand maintaining the security and privacy of it is critical.

I think it’s fair to say, as organisations and IT professionals we are becoming much more mature in our attitudes to data privacy and security and we understand more than ever the risks posed to it.

This increased level of maturity is going to become even more important, especially with significant regulation changes on the horizon and none are more significant than the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In this weeks podcast, the second part of my conversation with Global Data Protection Attorney Sheila Fitzpatrick (You can find part one here), we discuss exactly what GDPR is going to mean to us as organisations, including those organisations that are outside of the EU (including the impact on the UK).

Not only do we look at the impacts of the legislation, Sheila also shares with us some of the initial steps you can take to start to build robust data privacy policies.

How important it is to get the foundation right. How we need to understand our data, where we get it from, how we get it and what we keep and how this is much more important, initially, than finding technology tools to deal with the problem. Build the foundation before you build the second floor!

We also explore how data privacy and GDPR is NOT the problem of IT, it’s a business challenge, IT are certainly a key part in helping to deliver security, privacy and compliance, but it not an issue to throw back at IT to solve.

I hope you’ve found these two episodes with Sheila useful in providing an outline of the problem, as well as some of the steps you can take to address it.

If you want to catch up more with Sheila, you can find her on twitter @sheilafitzp and on Linkedin.

Next week, we look at a different part of the data security challenge, People.

I chat with Dom Saunders from NETconsent as we look at how we can make our people a key asset in dealing with the data challenge.

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Thanks for listening…

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