Security News > 2021 > February > Why pseudonymisation is important to protect personal data?

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity released its report on pseudonymisation for personal data protection, providing a technical analysis of cybersecurity measures in personal data protection and privacy.

While not a new process, pseudonymisation came into the spotlight in 2018 with the enforcement of GDPR, which references it as a security and data protection by design mechanism.

Although the deployment and proper application of data pseudonymisation techniques have become highly debated, the overall context of the processing is considered as an important aspect for implementation.

ENISA Executive Director Juhan Lepassaar said: "Cybersecurity techniques are an integral part to meet data protection obligations, and allow users to enjoy fully their fundamental rights to personal data protection and privacy."

As there is no one-size-fits-all pseudonymisation technique, a high level of competence is needed to reduce threats and maintain efficiency in processing such data across different scenarios.

An in-depth look into the context of personal data processing before data pseudonymisation is applied.

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