GEC NEWS WIREVeritas Technologies revealed a set of solutions and services to help prepare organizations for the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently finalized by the European Union Parliament. Veritas Enterprise Vault12, Data Insight 5.1, Information Map and supporting services including the dark data assessment to provide businesses with critical visibility into their unstructured data that will help them to achieve better compliance with the new GDPR and existing regulations.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation aims to catapult data protection into the era of big data and cloud computing, ensuring that data protection is a fundamental basic right uniformly and consistently regulated throughout Europe. Any company that serves European customers and collects their data will have to abide by this law – even companies based and handling that personal data outside Europe.
Matthew Ellard, Senior Vice President, EMEA at Veritas said, “Any organization that handles personal data relating to individuals located in the EU will be obligated to review their information management processes. Veritas is committed to helping them to get control over their data, gain visibility and insights, so they can demonstrate compliance to GDPR.”
The regulation will be enforced in May 2018, so businesses have two years to prepare for the GDPR. A business that finishes this task earlier, will not only benefit from getting their data under control.
