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What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

2.

Which companies are affected by GDPR?

3.

What are the consequences for non-compliance?

5.

How do you make your customers GDPR-ready?

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Summary

The purpose of GDPR The key concepts in the GDPR

Contents 4.

How do you prepare your company for GDPR? 1

2

Know which personal data you have Identify your role in using personal data

3

Develop a strong security program

4

Evaluate if you need a Data Protection Officer (DPO)

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Develop a data breach response policy

1

Discover

2

Manage

3

Protect

4

Report


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1. What is the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)? The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a new privacy regulation across the European Union. It provides EU residents with more control over their personal data, ensures transparency about the use of data, and requires certain technical and organizational controls to protect data. The GDPR takes effect on May 25, 2018, and replaces the EU Data

What is personal data?

Protection Directive (“Directive”). The GDPR is all about protecting and processing personal data. Personal data is a The GDPR actually became law in the EU in April 2016, but

lot more than you might initially think. The European definition of personal data is

given the significant changes some organizations will need to

any information about an identified or identifiable individual.

make to align with the regulation, a two-year transition period was included.

This could be any piece of information about you such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, order history, user name and passwords, credit card information and transactions.


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The purpose of GDPR

The key concepts in the GDPR

The GDPR is structured around six principles:

1.

Requiring transparency on the handling and use of personal data.

2.

Limiting personal data processing to specified, legitimate purposes.

3.

Limiting personal data collection and storage to intended purposes.

emerging digital economy.

4.

Enabling individuals to correct or request deletion of their personal data.

Secondly, the EU wants to give business a simpler, clearer legal

5.

Limiting the storage of personal data for only as long as necessary

environment in which to operate, making data protection law

for its intended purpose.

6.

Ensuring personal data is protected using appropriate security practices.

Firstly, the EU wants to give people more control over how their personal data is used. The Directive was enacted before the internet and cloud technology created new ways of processing personal data, and the GDPR seeks to address that. By strengthening data protection legislation and introducing tougher enforcement measures, the EU hopes to improve trust in the

identical throughout the single market (the EU estimates this will save businesses a collective 2.3 billion Euros a year.)


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Which companies are affected by GDPR?

What are the consequences for non-compliance?

The GDPR is going to impact every company that is doing

The GDPR gives Data Protection Authorities (“DPA”), the governmental supervisory

business in Europe that collects personal data on European

entities that oversee compliance with the GDPR, the power to levy substantial fines

data subjects (EU residents). Previously the Directive only

in case of non-compliance.

applied to organizations that have a physical presence in Europe, and directly marketed to or collected data on European

Article 58 of the GDPR provides the DPAs with the power to impose administrative

data subjects.

fines under Article 83 based on several factors, including:

Under GDPR any organization that collects personal data on

The nature, gravity and duration of the infringement (e.g., how many people

European data subjects, whether the company is based in

were affected and how much damage was suffered by them)

Europe or located outside of Europe, will need to develop a

Whether the infringement was intentional or negligent

GDPR compliance program.

The types of personal data involved

There are two types of fines if a company is not in compliance with GDPR. The first level of fines will be of 10 million euros or 2 percent of an organization’s global turnover. These fines will generally be reserved for first time offenses. The second level of fines will be of 20 million euros or 4 percent of an organization’s global turnover. An organization can expect this level of fines in circumstances for negligence, repeat violations or egregious issues within the data processing environment.


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Know which personal data you have

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The first step towards GPDR compliance is to determine whether the GDPR applies to your organization, and if so, to what extent. This analysis starts with understanding the personal data you have and how it is collected and processed. It’s important to inventory you organization’s data. This will help you to understand what data is personal, and to identify the systems where that personal data is collected and stored, understand why it was collected, how it

How to prepare your company for GDPR? With the GDPR around the corner, it’s time to start planning for GDPR compliance. May 25, 2018 is not as far off as it seems. If your company is holding personal data on EU data subjects and has not started to prepare for the GDPR, you need to act now.

is processed and shared, and how long it is retained.

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Identify your role in using personal data You also have to identify your role in using personal data. Are you a data controller or data processor? A data controller states how and why personal data is processed, while a processor is an organization that processes personal data under specific instructions by a data controller. The controller could be any organization, from a profit-seeking company to a charity or government. A processor could be an IT firm processing personal data on behalf of its customer, the data controller. Once you know your role you can determine your data protection obligations.


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3 Preparing

Develop a strong security program

for

GDPR

is

a

great

opportunity to review your security program. Data protection requires a strong security program, which includes both physical and information security. You have to know your internal controls,

Another important issue is to evaluate under GDPR is if you

Evaluate if your company needs a Data Protection Officer (DPO)

need to appoint a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). To comply with the GDPR some organizations must designate a DPO. Data Protection Officers are responsible for overseeing data protection strategy and implementation to ensure compliance with GDPR. Companies need to have their DPOs in place

systems and technologies that you

before the Regulation goes into effect, so it’s important to begin

utilize to protect your organization from

recruiting and hiring DPOs in time.

unauthorized access use or misuse.

Process personal data according to the data subject’s consent

GDPR also requires you to understand

While it’s recommended to have someone who is

how you are collecting data, and the

responsible for personal data protection and GDPR

legal justification for collecting that

compliance, the DPO is only mandatory in three

data. One of the legal mechanisms

circumstances. Your company need a DPO in following

for processing personal data available

cases:

to an organization is through the data subject’s unambiguous consent. For

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example, you might have received your

The processing of personal data is done by public

customers personal data to facilitate

authorities or a public body, with an exception for courts and

the delivery of goods and services, this

independent juridical authorities.

doesn’t necessarily mean you also have consent to market to them about future

The processing is done by processors who regularly and

products or promotional activities. You

systematically observe data subjects on a large scale.

need to know you have consent in each activity that you do, and that consent

The processing involves specific ‘special’ data categories,

needs to be specific for each activity.

again on a large scale, as processing these special types of

Keep in mind that consent can be

personal data is part of your core business. Data regarding

revoked at any time.

crimes and convictions are included here.


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The DPO’s responsibilities include:

Educating the company and employees on important compliance requirements. Training staff involved in data processing. Conducting audits to ensure compliance and address potential issues proactively. Serving as the point of contact between the company and the DPAs. Maintaining comprehensive records of all data processing activities conducted by the company, including the purpose of all processing activities, which must be made public on request. Interfacing with data subjects to inform them about how their data is being used, their rights to have their personal data erased, and what measures the company has put in place to protect their personal information


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Develop a data breach response policy

What is a data breach? A data breach is the release of secured, personal information to an untrusted environment

A data breach is when personal information is lost or subjected to

Previously Europe never had a requirement to provide notification

unauthorised access, modification,

to data subjects if their personal data was breached or used in an

disclosure, or other misuse or interference.

unauthorized way. The GDPR requires organizations to develop a data breach response policy. In case of a data breach your company has to inform the data subjects and the government authorities within 72 hours. Your actions in the first 24 hours after discovering a data breach are often crucial to the success of your response. A quick response can substantially decrease the impact on the affected individuals. A data breach response policy will help you prepare for and manage a data breach. It’s a framework which sets out the roles and responsibilities for managing an appropriate response to a data breach as well as describing the steps to be taken in managing a breach if one occurs. This includes: The members of your data breach response team (response team); The actions to be taken if a breach is suspected, discovered or reported by a staff member, including when it is to be escalated

Examples

to the response team;

of a data breach

The actions the response team is expected to take.

are when a device containing personal information of clients is lost or stolen, an entity’s database containing personal information is hacked or an entity mistakenly provides personal information to the wrong person.


4

Report

How to get your customers GDPR-ready?

Execute on data requests, report data breaches, and keep required 3

Protect Establish security controls to prevent,

Maybe you are already getting

detect, and respond to

questions about the GDPR from your customers.

2

Manage

You can help them to get GDPR-ready by focusing on

Govern how personal

four key steps.

data is used and 1

Discover Identify what personal data your customer has and where it resides.

accessed.

vulnerabilities and data breaches.

documentation.


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Cloud solutions 1

Discover The first step is to inventory the data of your customer.

Enterprise Mobility + Security features identitydriven security technologies that help you discover, control, and safeguard personal data

This will help you to understand what data is personal and where the data is collected. Personal data is ‘any

held by your customers’ organization, as well as reveal potential blind spots and detect when data breaches occur.

information about an identified or identifiable individual’. This could be any piece of information about you such as someone’s name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, order history, user name and passwords, credit card information and

Office 365 (Data Loss Prevention) can identify over 80 common sensitive data types including financial, medical, and personally identifiable information.

transactions.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Dynamics 365 provides several visibility and auditing capabilities that can be used through the Reporting & Analytics dashboards to identify personal data.


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Cloud solutions

2

Manage

Azure Active Directory is an identity and access management solution in the cloud. It manages

Once that inventory is complete, the next important step is to develop and implement a

identities and controls access to Azure, on-premises, and other cloud resources, data, and applications.

data governance plan. This plan can help your customer to define policies, roles, and responsibilities for the access, management, and use of personal data.

Enterprise Mobility + Security (Azure Information Protection) can help you classify and label your data at the time of creation or modification. Protection or visual markings can then be applied to sensitive data.


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3

Protect

The GDPR requires that every company takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from loss or unauthorized access or disclosure. Data security is a complex area. There are many types of risk to identify and consider—ranging from physical intrusion or rogue employees to accidental loss or hackers. Cloud solutions can protect your customers against those risks.

Cloud solutions

Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud protects

Kaspersky covers protection from malware,

McAfee is intensely focused on developing

corporate and end user devices on various

ransomware, and sophisticated online threats.

proactive, proven security solutions and

platforms

against

ransomware.

directed

attacks

and

services that protect systems, networks, and mobile devices for business and personal use around the world.


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Report

The GDPR sets new standards in transparency, accountability and recordkeeping. Your customers need to be more transparent about how they handle personal data, but also how they actively maintain documentation defining their processes and use of personal data. Your customers need to keep records about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed and the identity of third parties with whom data is shared. Using the proper auditing tools can help to ensure that processing of data is tracked and recorded.

Cloud solutions

Microsoft Azure contains security

Enterprise Mobility + Security (Azure

monitoring, reporting and alert tools.

Information Protection) provides rich

Microsoft Azure Monitor enables

logging and reporting to analyze how

your end customer to easily view

sensitive data is distributed.

and manage all their data monitoring tasks from a central dashboard.


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Summary The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a

The GDPR is going to impact every company that is

Get your customers GDPR-ready by focusing on four

new privacy regulation across the European Union. It

doing business in Europe that collects personal data

key steps:

provides EU data subjects with more control over their

on European data subjects (EU residents). In case of

personal data, ensures transparency about the use of

non-compliance your company can be heavily fined

personal data, and requires security and controls to

(up to 20 million euros or 4 percent of global turnover).

1

Discover: Identify what personal data your customer has and where it resides.

protect data. The GDPR takes effect on May 25, 2018. The time to start planning for GDPR compliance is The GDPR is structured around six principles:

2

now. May 2018 is quickly approaching. You may think

Manage: Govern how personal data is used and accessed.

you have plenty of time, but big companies have been 1

2

Requiring transparency on the handling and use of

preparing for GDPR for a few years. It’s necessary to

personal data.

keep the following in mind: Know which personal data you have 4

Report: Execute on data requests, report data

2

Identify your role in using personal data

breaches, and keep required documentation.

3

Develop a strong security program

Every company knows their customers best and what

Limiting the storage of personally identifiable data for only as long as necessary for its intended purpose.

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and respond to vulnerabilities and data breaches.

Enabling individuals to correct or request deletion of their personal data.

5

1

Limiting personal data collection and storage to intended purposes.

4

Protect: Establish security controls to prevent, detect,

Limiting personal data processing to specified, legitimate purposes.

3

3

their needs are. It’s important to keep transparent 4

Evaluate if you need a Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Ensuring personal data is protected using appropriate security practices.

on your practices and supportive of your customers’ obligations and requirements. This will allow you to

5

Develop a data breach response policy

differentiate yourself from competitors.


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