A large number of the UK’s 2.55 million businesses are at risk of huge financial penalties, as employees ignore company policies around confidential data. Research from Sharp has identified that one in 12 office workers (eight per cent) has had access to confidential information that they should not have had, and nearly a quarter (24 per cent)
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Less than half of global executives believe GDPR compliance is relevant
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Many global business decision makers are unaware of the implications of the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as other compliance regulations like PCI-DSS and ISO27001/2, with one in five admitting they do not know which regulations their organisation is subject to. This is according to the 2017 Risk:Value report, commissioned by NTT
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Three ways to prepare your business for GDPR
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Next May, the UK will apply the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Dubbed as the most important change in data protection of the past two decades, this ruling is set to protect all EU citizens’ data privacy, and enforce changes needed in the business sector which ensure that organisations protect people’s data. Despite Article 50
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How small businesses can prepare for GDPR
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It’s official, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now less than one year away. As the countdown to implementation intensifies, speculation over how the regulation will affect businesses continues to make headlines. While it is inevitable that small businesses will be affected, they can limit the negative consequences by understanding the regulation and
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UK IT departments are more prepared for GDPR than Europe
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Spiceworks, the professional network for IT, today announced the results of a new survey that explores how IT departments are preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) due to go into effect in May 2018. The research, GDPR: The Impact on IT, reveals that IT professionals in the U.K. are more prepared and informed
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UK businesses at risk of huge fines by not complying with GDPR
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Hundreds of thousands of UK businesses will be potentially at risk of huge fines (up to 4 per cent of a firm’s global annual turnover) by not complying with the forthcoming EU General Data Protection (GDPR) next May, according to latest research published by UK’s first fully compliant GDPR job board CareersinCyberSecurity.co.uk and London law firm
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What does the GDPR mean for SMEs?
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in the UK in May 2018 and is anticipated to have a significant impact on businesses across the country. The GDPR is a replacement for the Data Protection Act 1998, and will apply to all organisations that process, handle and store any personal data of
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Time is running out to master candidate engagement
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Businesses have just a matter of months to ensure that candidate engagement strategies are hitting the mark – or they risk losing access to vast and valuable talent pools. That is the advice of global talent acquisition and management specialist, Alexander Mann Solutions, as the launch of new data protection laws draw closer. The introduction
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SMEs uncertain of Brexit impact on GDPR
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A year after the UK voted to leave the European Union, new research from Webroot, the market leader in endpoint security, network security, and threat intelligence, reveals that UK small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) misunderstand the impact of Brexit on compliance to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Webroot finds that UK SMBs were unsure
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GDPR inertia; three quarters of marketers fail consent test with a year to go
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A test conducted by email service provider Mailjet finds 72 per cent of UK marketers either cannot answer, or incorrectly list the necessary conditions to meet GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requirements for ‘opt-in’ consent. With less than a year to go ahead of the 25 May 2018 deadline, only 17 per cent of respondents have taken all
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