U.S. companies have a lot of work do before May 2018, according to Justin Antonipillai, Founder and CEO of WireWheel and former Acting Undersecretary of the Department of Commerce, at the Wall Street Journal’s Cybersecurity Executive Forum in New York. In May, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect in Europe, mandating much stricter controls on how data can be collected, analyzed and used. The GDPR has been heralded as a monumental shift towards protecting and valuing customer data privacy, and Europe considers it a huge win for strengthening citizen’s rights. The privacy conversation is one that had been rapidly ascending into boardrooms and security operations centers, Antonipillai said. “Privacy is no longer a vitamin, or something you’ll see at the low end of a priority chain. It’s becoming an issue of trade and market, and a critical part of security portfolios.” Ajay Arora, CEO and co-founder […]
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