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Data security always has meant different things to different people. Most have agreed on the importance of using firewalls, but for decades, businesses have been able to choose the level of data encryption they employ. If they didn’t think a VPN was necessary, they simply didn’t use one. If they didn’t think they needed end-to-end data encryption, they would skip it and take their chances. That is, until recently.

​Regulatory compliance is a huge concern for companies in many industries, but the cost of failing in compliance efforts can be an even higher concern. Penalties, fines, loss of business, loss of client confidence, and even outright theft of confidential financial information can quickly add up and take a heavy toll on your business.

The Department of Finance has scaled down its ambitious plan to implement a state-of the-art whole of government automated records management platform for Australian Commonwealth Agencies and will now seek to establish a panel of qualified RM vendors in 2019.

Fun fact: the average business today uses over 300 applications to run the enterprise. Employees shift between these apps every two to three minutes, and according to McKinsey, spend almost 50 percent of their time searching for information and managing communications. This is today’s digital workplace, and it is a beautiful and terrible thing. Technology gives us more options for communication and collaboration than ever before. But it comes at a cost unless companies prepare a clear technology blueprint that documents and visualises their entire digital workplace.

One month following the May 25 deadline, only 20% of companies US, UK and EU (excluding UK) surveyed believed they were GDPR compliant, according to research conducted by Dimensional Research for data privacy vendor TrustArc.

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