Are you GDPR ready? International certification can help 24th May 2018
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018, superseding the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (1995). With less than two weeks to go, are you ready for it? Certification to ISO 27001 information security management systems can get you around 95% of the way there. The new law, comprising 99 articles, applies to all companies that collect the data of EU citizens, regardless of where the company is located in the world.
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Are you GDPR ready? International certification can helpThe European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018, superseding the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (1995). With less than two weeks to go, are you ready for it? Certification to ISO 27001 information security management systems can get you around 95% of the way there. The new law, comprising 99 articles, applies to all companies that collect the data of EU citizens, regardless of where the company is located in the world.
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