Survey Finds Most Companies Won’t Be Ready For EU GDPR Legislation On May 25th
A fifth of companies lack continuous encryption for personally identifiable information, and only half have the systems required to meet Articles 16 and 17 of the GDPR legislation.
With just two weeks until the new EU General Data Protection Regulation Legislation (GDPR) comes into force, data security company WinMagic has released the findings of research that suggests many companies will not be ready when it takes effect on May 25th, 2018. 62% of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) surveyed describe themselves as “confident” in the build-up, with 1 in 5 (18%) saying they are nervous.
Only half (51%) of companies say they have all the systems in place that will allow them to remove EU citizen data from servers upon the request, including back-ups, in accordance with Articles 16 and 17 of GDPR. Worryingly, a fifth (21%) do not yet have any systems in place.