Security News > 2021 > September > Data Privacy Day 6 months later: A look at privacy trends and solutions
Does your company need a head of data privacy, a data breach response plan, blockchain technology or something else to keep its data safe? Here are some challenges and recommendations.
I wrote about Data Privacy Day to provide some tips and best practices in January, but it takes more than one day a year to properly focus upon data privacy.
"This is a very striking manifestation of the current data privacy challenges: As a result of Schrems II, it is now extremely difficult for European organizations or companies to transfer data to U.S. partners to extract value from it," she said.
"Organizations should adopt purpose-built solutions that not only identify compromised sensitive information but can easily translate fragmented pieces of disparate data into a cohesive list of affected individuals requiring notification under privacy laws relevant to their unique projects," he said.
Businesses can launch trials on simple, practical use cases and expand the scope of these technologies as confidence grows, helping to bridge the gap between data privacy and data utility.
Stephen Cavey, co-founder of data security organization Ground Labs, said, "We cannot solely rely on the average employee to take care of privacy issues. Many organizations, especially big tech companies, must invest in senior professionals specialized in data privacy and compliance, such as chief compliance officers as well as third-party tools and software to help identify and monitor the ever-increasing repositories of data."