With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in effect, organizations are not only looking at their…
immediate tasks for compliance, they are also considering a more holistic approach to data protection with a longer term strategy for data risk management.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires the protection of personal information with an added layer of ensuring an individual’s right to be forgotten, which enables individuals to request that all of their personal information be removed from an organization’s environment.
This particular right is one example of an external regulation with potentially drastic implications for data management. Not only do you need to know what data sets contain personal data, you also need to know what kind of information…
