Setting sail towards compliance

Executive summary

Compliance. Privacy. GDPR. All too often do these words evoke images of mountains of red tape compounding in the prevailing fear of crippling fines for failing to meet their demands. But things are changing. No longer is achieving compliance all about ticking boxes; it’s about driving a culture change in an era where the trust deficit is one of the biggest societal concerns of all. It’s an opportunity for businesses to earn back the trust of their target audiences.

Businesses have traditionally taken a reactive approach to compliance1 . The top concern has long been to minimise the time and investment needed to be able to prove to regulators that a specific rule has been met. With regulatory requirements being generated on a global, national, and even a local level, the demands aren’t getting any easier to meet. Just ‘getting it done’ is no longer practical, or even desirable. Instead, it requires a strategy that starts with the very foundations of modern business operations. It demands privacy by design and default.

But let’s take a more positive outlook. Navigating the new information landscape and enabling privacy and security by design and default isn’t just about staying on the right side of the law. It’s also the only way today’s organisations can:

• Ensure business continuity
• Empower innovation without adding risk
• Turn trust into a value proposition
• Derive greater insights from data
• Meet the challenges of scale

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